A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine.

Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.

Sandwich outdoors isn’t a sandwich anymore. Tastes different than indoors, notice? Got more spice. Tastes like mint and pinesap. Does wonders for the appetite.

The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen.

The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched out to encompass everything, stared back at him.

and sleeping put an end to summer, 1928,

Trains and boxcars and the smell of coal and fire are not ugly to children. Ugliness is a concept that we happen on later and become self-conscious about.

No, ” moaned Tom in despair. “School. School straight on ahead! Why, why do dime stores show things like that in windows before summer’s even over! Ruin half the vacation!

The people there were gods and midgets and knew themselves mortal and so the midgets walked tall so as not to embarrass the gods and the gods crouched so as to make the small ones feel at home.

My goal is to do something outrageous every day.

John McCain likes to say that he'll follow bin Laden to the Gates of Hell - but he won't even go to the cave where he lives.

An anniversary says, "Think of the dreams you have weathered together. They are intimate accomplishments."

People speak of a will to live. They rarely speak of a will to die. Because people are afraid of death. Death is dark and unknown and frightening. But not for me. It is not the end.

She always had that about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far, and of thoughts that wander off the edge of the world.

War that hasn't affected us here, in the way that you would imagine a five-year war would affect a country.

The truth is, anyone can start projects. The world is full of just-started projects that looked great at the time but were never completed.

If you judge after appearances, you will continue to be enslaved by the evidence of your senses.

It is a bad plan that cannot be altered.

I cap myself when I shop; I don't like to spend extravagant amounts on clothes. But, I do get lent clothes for events, it's scary to wear something so expensive, but I feel really pampered.