Courage is a muscle that develops through use. It's no use waiting for some inner fire to conveniently become apparent at the moment of crisis - that's cartoon stuff.

That is the trouble with happiness-all of it is built on top of something that men want.

So when I say that I am a refugee, you must understand that there is no refuge.

This thing with being lovers, it isn't like being married.

I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that of an athlete.

This is the forked tongue of grief again. It whispers in one ear: return to what you once loved best, and in the other ear it whispers, move on.

In my world death will come chasing. In your world it will start whispering in your ear to destroy yourself. I know this because it started whispering to me when I was in the detention center.