Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their innate tendency to have things happen to them.

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

Each time you happen to me all over again.

It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.

..but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.

The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future.

It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country.

Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self?

She threw back her head with a laugh that made her chins ripple like little waves.

Conservatives cherished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the "new people" whom New York was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to

Ah, no, he did not want May to have that kind of innocence, the innocence that seals the mind against imagination and the heart against experience...

Well, if that’s what you call being at peace, for heaven’s sake just warn me before you go to war, will you?

There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.

Fear stimulates us to take action and can be our friend, but if you act as though fear is not there-if you deny it-it will build and create barriers.

We must not only speak about forgiveness and reconciliation, we must act on these principles.

Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating it into tragedy. It is more than merely painful, it is disgusting.

Are we proud and passionate, malicious and revengeful? Is this to be like-minded with Christ, who was meek and lowly?

They compare Steve McManaman to Steve Heighway and he's nothing like him, but I can see why - it's because he's a bit different

Writing has never been that simple for me.

Artists should be aware that petty stroking could be the source of arrested productivity. An artist's job includes the avoidance of premature closure by the begged or gratuitous approval of others.

We're all crazy. What's your specific form of crazy?