The storm does not ask what you’ve made—it only asks how deeply you’ve grown.

A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by no means the most interesting.

When you kill someone, you don't just kill who they were, you kill a little bit of everyone who knew them.

There is nothing to write. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years.

Morning storms are the worst storms because you do not yet have your bearings on the day.

The world isn't a thing to be observed, it is a place in which to live. To love and to thrive, making food sweeter, campfires brighter and laughter richer.

“The fire burns, the fire purges, the fire reveals.”

“He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster.”

“Sometimes the dragons are yours. Sometimes they’re borrowed.”