“I took a deep breath. 'For you I've got something better than love.'What's that?'I...trust you.'Why?'You'll never hurt me.'Thank you.'But...'But, what?'I said, 'That means I'll hurt you.'Why?' 'Cau...”

“Then the silence came back, that awful silence that seemed to just take over.In that silence I kept hearing what I had said--heard it repeating itself over and over again like a stuck record. I wan...”

“The greater a man's - or boy's - ignorance of the world, the more certain he is that he sits in the center of that world.”

“It's said truth is stranger than fiction, but fiction makes truth a friend, not a stranger.”

“When dark, it's bright, when brightest, it's gone. When gone for good, so will I be.What am I?”

“Writing takes a lot of patience. It usually takes me a year to write a book. One time, it took me 14 years to write a book, not that I worked on it every day.”

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”

“All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings theres too much corruption in the world ”

“Its only when youre at the bottom of the ladder that you ascend.”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“If I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and t...”

“I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and ...”

“The wind that blows the ship that goes And the lass that loves a sailor.”

“As I've grown - dare I say it - older, I had hopes of indulging my dreams of being a sailor.”

“They that go down to the sea in ships that do business in great waters these see the works of the Lord and his wonders in the deep.”