Life breaks us all but in the end we are stronger in the broken places.

The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found.

I would take anything I love and throw it off the highest cliff you ever saw and not wait to hear it bounce.

No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.

It is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.

Later he had seen the things that he could never think of and later still he had seen much worse.

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.