Going off the grid is always good for me. It's the way that I've started books and finished books and gotten myself out of deadline dooms and things.

Yes. We both have a bad feeling. Tonight we shall take our bad feelings and share them, and face them. We shall mourn. We shall drain the bitter dregs of mortality. Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled, but halved. No man is an island.

What about volcanoes?" "What about them?" "All that lava comes up from center of the earth where it is all hot. I saw a program, it had David Attenborough, so it's true.

Coraline wondered why so few of the adults she met made any sense.

He tried to listen to the conversations going on at the table and he found that he could no longer concentrate on what anyone was saying and which was worse that he was not interested in any of what he was able to hear.

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.

It is sometimes a mistake to climb. It is always a mistake to never make the attempt.