The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart.
Everything about her seems to be saying; Listen, if you don't look attentively, if you don't go beyond my simplicity to detect the simmering volcano in me, you are not it.
For there to be betrayal, there would have had to been trust first.
Some people will tell you that slow is good – but I'm here to tell you that fast is better. I've always believed this, in spite of the trouble it's caused me. Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube.
Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder, 'Why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.
When the next brilliant flash illuminates the sky, I often find myself filled with longing, though I'm at a loss to tell you what it is that I feel my life is missing.
Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.
In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes.