Didn't you tell me smoking ruined your stamina as a boxer? ...Ruined is a strong word, I'd say....It helps fight boredom. It gives you more to do and less time to do it in.

When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.

And with a last stardrop, a last circle, I arrive, and she's there, chemical wonder in her eyes.

Some things are too good. They make everything else worthless.

There's a reason prophets perform miracles: language lacks the power to describe faith. And you have to land on faith before you can even begin to hike around to its flip side, betrayal.

I have this thing about friends and secrets. Sometimes when I meet a person I like, I tell them a secret they don't know me well enough to be told. It lets me judge their potential as a friend.

Language lacks the power to describe Faith.

Children are excellent judges of character, you know

When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain

I'm interested in things women do that aren't spoken about. Manto's stories let me breathe. They make me feel like less of a monster.

Some men drink the blood of other men, all I drink is wine.

Good evening, children, ' Said Nurse Matilda, and she gave a loud thump on the floor with her big black stick. 'I am Nurse Matilda.

Like a necktie or a bouquet of flowers, an idea was best if one did not fuss with it too much

The best conversation I had was over forty million years ago, ' continued Marvin.

Let us not fear the hidden. Or each other.

And the only people I fear are those who never have doubts... Save us all from arrogant men, and all the causes they're for.

The man who counts his hours and kicks about his salary is a self-elected failure.

Many of the biggest and most far-reaching investments we make in our lives are investments that have little or nothing to do with money.

Today, unfortunately, the right to vote seems to have become a partisan issue. Democrats seek to guarantee and expand voting rights. Republicans try to undermine and suppress voting rights.

The belly comes before the soul.

It was as if, before she'd met him, her blood had circulated grayly around her body, and now ir was all oxygenated and red. She was petrified of becoming the half-alive person she'd been before.