No one controls your destiny. Even at the very worst - there is always choice.

Birds know themselves not to be at the center of anything, but at the margins of everything. The end of the map. We only live where someone's horizon sweeps someone else's. We are only noticed on the edge of things; but on the edge of things, we notice much.

Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.

The melody faded like a rainbow after a storm, or like winds calming down at last; and what was left was calm, and possibility, and relief.

There may be no city in the clouds, but dreaming of it can enliven the spirit.

When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of sequence.

...No opening sermons concerning children with humps and fins for limbs, who nonetheless, immortal souls all, deserve life, liberty, and the pursuit of Happy Meals.