Going for it and changing what you could change-that's what success was all about.

Whoever had said that appearances were deceiving was only partially right; they could also be deadly.

They say that when you're about to die, your life flashes before your eyes. They never tell you that when you watch someone you once loved dying, hovering between this life and the next, it's twice as painful, because you're reliving two lives that traveled one road together.

He paused just long enough for me to know I was starting to bug him. I bug a lot of people, they usually do just what Sully did, make a show of putting down the important thing they were doing to go and do the unimportant thing I just asked, solely in the interest of getting rid of me. Sometimes I think the bulk of my societal interaction is annoying people. I wonder what that's doing to my psyche.

You can never be free of their criticism until you no longer seek their praise.

She was the kind of woman a person could die over or kill over.