Growing up is like that, I suppose. The strings fall away and you're left standing on your own.

Dreamless nights, I knew, can be the most troubling, since you come back not knowing where you've been or what you've done.

I do not encourage early morning chirpiness, even in those whom I know and love. It is generally a sign of a sloppy mind, and is not to be encouraged.

You can learn from a glance at anyone's library, not what they are, but what they wish to be.

As anybody with two older sisters can tell you, a closed door is like a red rag to a bull. It cannot go unchallenged.

It's amazing what the discovery of a corpse can do for one's spirits.

Love is love, wherever you may find it—even when it's covered in feathers.

I could tell he was becoming sulky, as boys and men do when they're caught bluffing. And I ignored him, as girls and women do when they catch them out.

True charity, I had had discovered, consists of swallowing an invisible flaming sword.

Thirty-five craters on the moon are named for Jesuit scientists and mathematicians.

Fortune draws her breath through cracks that make coarse the route on which we march to success

If you're saving, you're succeeding

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

I guess I look so straight and normal nobody expects me to pick my nose and fall.

Most of the work that's done in the world gets done by people who weren't feeling all that well at the time that they did it.

Fate is the raw materials of experience. They come uninvited and often unanticipated. Destiny is what a man does with these raw materials.

As a homeschooling parent, I have often wondered who learns more in our family, the parent or the child. The topic I seem to be learning the most about is the nature of learning itself.

People exaggerate their own skills. they are optimistic about their prospects and overconfident about their guesses, including which managers to pick.

Progressives are overreacting .Underreacting, though, to the - what the real threats are, and the real opportunities.