Certain people have said that the world is like a calm pond, and that anytime a person does even the smallest thing, it is as if a stone has dropped into the pond, spreading circles of ripples further and further out, until the entire world has been changed by one tiny action.

I'm not a stranger," I said, and pointed to his book. "I'm someone who reads the same authors you do.

When you start reading nonfiction books about piracy, you realize that it's actually just a history of desperate people.

Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course.

Everybody will die, but very few people want to be reminded of that fact.

The end of 'The End' is the best place to begin 'The End', because if you read 'The End' from the beginning of the beginning of 'The End' to the end of the end of 'The End', you will arrive at the end.

Life never end when you are in it.