Anything happening, ” she whispered.“Aside from you blundering about like a lost elephant?” he asked, in the same low tone.She nodded, accepting the rebuke. “Aside from that.

Keep practicing, " he told her."Until I get it right?" she said. But he corrected her."No. Until you don't get it wrong.

You've always said I should have an inquiring mind, " she said. "I have. But not an interrupting one.

No matter how thoroughly you plan, no matter how much you think you know, you've never thought of everything.

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

Tonight the sky was utterly black. Perhaps there was no moon tonight—a lunar eclipse, a new moon. A new moon. I shivered, though I wasn't cold.

I will wait for God’s promises to be fulfilled in my life.

Good luck, I'm beginning to discover, is just as baffling as the bad. There never seems to be a reason for it - no sense of reward or punishment. It simply is - the most incomprehensible idea of all.

They said, congratulations you got what it takes. They sent him back to the rat race without any brakes.

I'd like to thank ma da (dad)... my mum for doin' aw ma washin'

I think I've been able to fool a lot of people because I know I'm a dork. I'm a geek.

Art is many things but, directly or indirectly, it always describes the human condition.

[On turning down an invitation to appear for four minutes on the Ed Sullivan Show:] Honey, it takes Moms four minutes just to get on the stage.

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.