Sometimes when I'm really enjoying a book, I'll read a sentence or paragraph and just think - how can someone's head be wired in such a way that they'd come up with that?

Savor the little moments, son, that's my advice. They're what life is. All the little things that happen while you're waiting for something else.

As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don't get bogged down in it.

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.

Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud.

One act presses upon another, on a path we have no choice but to follow, and each time there are reasons. We do what we must, we do what we are told, we do what is easiest. What else can we do but solve one sordid problem at a time? Then we look up and find... this.

Fear has made them sloppy. The world teeters at a precipe. All scared to take a step in case they put a foot into empty air. The instinct of self-preservation. It can destroy a man's efficiency.