Death is not such a bad thing. What would be a bad thing would be living without challenges. Without knowing defeat, we cannot know what victory is. There is no life without death.

He was like Superman, but with fangs and oddly impaired morals.

I am the reality of all coyotes. The archetype. The epitome. You are just a reflection of me.

Nothing says you're sorry like a dead bunny.

I used my history degree about twice a year whether I needed to or not.

Adam didn't approve of Wal-Mart.

Trouble seems to follow me around, waiting to club me with a tire iron.

It was complicated. I understood it, mostly, but I had to think a little sideways to do it.

I didn't like anyone except me having their hands all over him. There had been possession in Wolf's touch, and Adam belonged to me.

I was too busy fighting the river to worry about adjusting my beliefs in accordance to reality.

If man doesn't dream, he has nothing.""A man whose dreams will never come true still has nothing.

There is always a zone where somebody is nobody

American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.

You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original.

Prayer is like a great love. When you start dating the silence can be awkward, but as you grow to know each other you can sit in silence for hours and just being with each other is a great comfort.

When Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar was asked why there was so much animosity in her country towards the United States, she gave a one-word answer: “drones.”

There is a demon in technology. It was put there by man and man will have to exorcise it before technological civilization can achieve the eighteenth-century ideal of humane civilized life.

... as long as we go on loving and working life is worth while.

She was always like that: grateful for life itself. Her glass was not only half full, it was gold plated with a permanent refill.