If you want to be a writer, you must be in love with the process of writing, whether you achieve financial success or not.

Commander! Sir! Wake up!" Jack surfaced from sleep, wondering who the commander was and wishing he'd respond so he could go back to sleep - until he remembered that he was the commander.

It was one of the warm nights at the end of summer that makes promises that won't be kept.

Nobody's going to hand you anything. You don't get what you don't go after.

You do not respond to an attempt on your life with a slap on the hand. Or a joke.

Why aren't you dead?" Will demanded.

I have to think it's possible to suffer a great wrong and walk away from it. To build a life of small, exquisitely important moments.