“Some people, though related by blood, are as sworn enemies. Others, bound only by friendship, would die for one another.”

“A mind that searches for answers to big questions is a mind that will discover incredible things.”

“A choice made having devastating consequences for another is really not a choice. It is an act.”

“The sky, with a single star, would be dark and boring. A million stars in the firmament makes for something wondrous and bright.”

“Storytelling is a gift, but writing is a learned art.”

“Great writers teach as well as entertain.”

“A mind that searches for answers to big questions is a mind that will discover incredible things.”

“Is there magic in this world? Certainly! But it is not the kind of magic written about in fantasy stories. It is the kind of magic that comes from ideas and the hard work it often takes to make the...”

“We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.”

“A culture of unaccountability is a culture without incentive, and a culture without incentive is the death of critical and creative thinking.”

“All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below.”

“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”

“I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”