As he thought of it, though, he could not imagine what “just living” might actually be. He had never done it in his life. But he wanted to do it anyway.

someone's sent a loving note in lines of returning geese and as the moon fills my western chamber as petals dance over the flowing stream again I think of you the two of us living a sadness apart a hurt that can't be removed yet when my gaze comes down my heart stays up

You killed more people than anybody in history." "Be the best at whatever you do, that's what my mother always told me.

It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again.

In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.

I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.