She had such unusual eyes. They made me think of the seaside, and so I called her Ocean, and could not have told you why.

As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end.

I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.

That's the trouble with you young people. You think because you ain't been here long, you know everything. In my life I already forgot more than you ever know.

I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept.

You see with your eyes. This means you can be misled by charm, by outward appearance. By webs of glamour, by surface pretences. I do not see with my eyes. I see good and I see evil. Nothing else.

Stories are webs, interconnected strand to strand, and you follow each story to the center, because the center is the end. Each person is a strand of the story.