And I stop listening to me, because to put it bluntly, I tire me.

A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.

… it was raining on Himmel Street when the world ended for Liesel Meminger. The sky was dripping. Like a tap that a child has tried its hardest to turn off but hasn’t quite managed.

Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.

Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.

Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.

I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there.

Please, trust me, I most definitely can be cheerful. I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. And that's only the A's. Just don't ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing to do with me.

I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.

Sometimes I just survive. But sometimes I stand on the rooftop of my existence, arms stretched out, begging for more.

If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.

Any factor that breeds polarization will worsen policy, and thus cause lower growth.

He will change diapers, of course he will. He is going to be a very hands-on father.

People like bluegrass. It's had a following amongst a lot of hip and young people. A lot of college kids like bluegrass.

Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.

That's the problem with white horses. You have to pay for them yourself or you'll always be using someone else's reins.

Well, it was kind of accidental that Jim started playing with us, although it wasn't sudden... we hadn't really looked around to think who could be a fifth member.

Time may restore us in his course Goethe's sage mind and Byron's force: But where will Europe's latter hour Again find Wordsworth's healing power?

Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive

One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth

I focus on the moment and move from task to task.