But I was beginning to feel like it all fit together, the same way everything in the bowl ends up in the bisquits, as Amma would say.

I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Mortals. I envy you. You think you can change things. Stop the universe. Undo what was done long before you came along. You are such beautiful creatures.

The right thing and the easy thing are never the same.

Knowing you don't have much time left changes things. You get kind of philosophical. And you figure things out-more like, they figure themselves out-and everything gets real clear.

There are no coincidences.

Because saving the people you love isn't stupid. It isn't even a choice

Who can judge the judge?

I'll love you until the day after forever.

It almost felt like she was sucking it all out of me, like she sucked on that sticky red lollipop, the one she kept licking as she drove.

the whole way down, I was only thinking one thing . . . L E N A

The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

Small though it is, the human brain can be quite effective when used properly.

Fairness means not to use fraud and trickery in the exchange of commodities and services and the exchange of feelings.

...It sounded like a dragon breathing in time with me, like I had this pet dragon who was cuddled up next to me and cared enough about me to time his breaths to mine.

The strips are nearly effortless unless I am really emotionally upset, a wreck.

Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.

Having whipped single women into high marital panic-or "nuptialitis," as one columnist called it- the press hastened to soothe fretted brows with conjugal tonic.

Well first of all, for a criminal practice there has to be a gun. It’s pretty simple.

Everyone threw the blame on me ... they nearly always do. I suppose ... they think I shall be able to bear it best.