All Excess is ill: But Drunkenness is of the worst Sort.

She'd been hired to protect him. But he'd come to a place where he'd do anything, give anything, risk anything to protect her.

Life is hard. Next to what?

Laugh and the world laughs with you weep and you weep alone.

Look, I don't need to feel like hell for failing you, okay? For failing you like I've failed every other godforsaken thing that I care about! I don't need it!

The finest flowers are those transplanted, for transplanting means difficulty, a readjusting to new conditions, and through the effort put forth to find adjustment does the plant progress.

Wildness is not just the "preservation of the world," it is the world

Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.

Nobody gives you money for nothing, and that's the lesson with the Clintons. Nobody gives you money because they like you.

I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.

We're living in an increasingly nationalistic, xenophobic time, and you can see it reflected in societies all over the world.