Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends.

My mother thought of my father as half barbarian and half blunt instrument, and she isolated him from his children.

Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it's afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams.

What's important is that a story changes every time you say it out loud. When you put it on paper, it can never change. But the more times you tell it, the more changes will occur. A story is a living thing; it moves and shifts

Few things linger longer or become more indwelling than that feeling of both completion and emptiness when a great book ends. That the book accompanies the reader forever from that day forward is part of literature's profligate generosity.

I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me.