I wouldn't have missed a single minute of it, Not for the whole world.

Bird and bear and hare and fish, give my love her fondest wish.

Everything's a lot tougher when it's for real. That's when you choke. When it's for real.

A little arrogance (or even a lot) isn't such a bad thing, although your mother undoubtedly told you different. Mine did. "Pride goeth before a fall, Stephen", she said... and then I found out - right around the age that is 19 x 2 - that eventually you fall down, anyway.

Scaring people, especially in our day and time, is one of the hardest things on earth, as far as I am concerned.

It's like many other things in life, Ellie. You keep on the path and all's well. You get off it and the next thing you know you're lost if you're not lucky.

You cannot friend a hawk, they said, unless you are a hawk yourself, alone and only a sojourner in the land, without friends or the need of them.