He wasn't mad, he was sad.

You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone else was just like her.

In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.

Time itself made all things rare.

Funny how the nature of a normal day is the first memory to fade.

Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And of our consuming diversions as we age is to recite, not only to others but to ourselves, our own story.

...whenever a woman describes a man as sweet, the dalliance is doomed.

Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.

I thought at the time that I couldn't be horrified anymore, or wounded. I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already been so damaged that damage itself, in its totality, makes you safe.

I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story.

My mind is huge with little stories that I never told you.

The seeker for perfection must discover in his own life the reflection of the inner light.

If people knew what they had to do to be successful most people wouldn't.

Ranger fans are the rudest and they're proud of it, I'm sure.

Do you know what fear stands for? False Evidence Appearing Real.

Heroic poetry has ever been esteemed the greatest work of human nature.

I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book.

You've got the brain-washed, that's the Democrats, and the brain-dead, that's the Republicans!

The most powerful demonstration of leadership is not a clenched fist of brute force but an open hand of humble assistance.

For 60 years you gave chance to Shasaks, now I request you to give a Sevak 60 months. I say give me 60 months and we will give you a life of peace and happiness.

Umm - it was - you know - umm - a good game. You know.