“Brains are like sponges...If allowed to become moist too long, they become moldy”

“There are three types of people in this world; Those who Sit, those who Stand, and those who Run. I've never doubted which I am.”

“Your green eye is a reducing chamber. If I look into it long enough, I wil become as small as my own reflection, I will diminish to a point and vanish. I will be drawn down into that black whirlpool and be consumed by you. I shall become so small you can keep me in one of your osier cages and mock my loss of liberty.”

“How far does a pretence of feeling, maintained with absolute conviction, become authentic?”

“Before he can become a wolf, the lycanthrope strips naked. If you spy a naked man among the pines, you must run as if the Devil were after you.”

“Strong winds buffet the sea oats and tall dune grasses, tossing sand and seabirds where it will, winding my sister's golden hair into sunlit spirals of silk until it becomes the only good memory I have of her -- the only memory I allowed myself to keep.”

“If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.”