A request not to worry ... is perhaps the least soothing message capable of human utterance.

The complexity of human relationships is never simple to follow; it is like intricate lacework, but lacework made of steel.

I seat myself at the typewriter and hope, and lurk.

Murder is a plant of slow growth.

contemplating the misfortunes of others does not lighten one's own trouble but instead adds to it.

A request not to worry is perhaps the least soothing message capable of human utterance.

murder is not polite.

Know the laws before you break them

Depending on someone to make for you money is quite like depending on them to make for you a baby: they will own the money just as they will own the baby

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

Don't hold onto negative feelings by justifying why you are right and someone else is wrong.

Small numbers make no difference to God. There is nothing small if God is in it.

God and I have built an immense fire together. We keep each other happy and warm.

You can tell when something's not moving forward anymore. When the doubts you have about it don't go away.

I don't consider myself any great sage of fashion or style, whatever people may want to think.

[President-elect George W] Bush has reached out to these other groups like Blacks and Hispanics.... He ought to do his reaching out to the people who elected him.