Her only thought was of getting away, as if she were carrying a live grenade from inside the house, so that when it exploded, it would destroy just herself.

If I had a view like this to look down on every day, I would have the energy and inspiration to conquer the world. The trouble is, when you most need such a view, no one gives it to you.

Vinegar: that's what fear smells like.

I’m sorry and I believe in you and I’ll always be near you, protecting you, and I will never leave you, I’ll be curled around your heart for the rest of your life.

The world is full of shitheads, Rhea. Don’t listen to them—listen to me. And I know that Lou is one of those shitheads. But I listen.

It was the hat. He looked sweet in the hat. How could a man in a fuzzy blue hat have used human bones to pave his roads?

Rich children are always blond, Jocelyn goes. It has to do with vitamins.

Time’s a goon, right? You gonna let that goon push you around?” Scotty shook his head. “The goon won.

This is the music business. 'Five years is five hundred years' - your words.

Kathy was a Republican, one of those people who used the unforgivable phrase "meant to be"--usually when describing her own good fortune or the disasters that had befallen other people.

It's finished. Everything went past, without me.

But a tedious way to a grievous end(745)

The Bowery station on the J line is what happens to a neighborhood once politicians realize the people who live there don’t vote.

I'll get pretty much everything the way I want it. I've always dreamed of a beach wedding.

I am the only one who can make America truly great again!

You change the most permanent-seeming conditions of your life constantly through the varying attitudes you have toward them.

I think it's fun to have work that you can relate to, that you can feel like is meaningful.

I look at someone like Giggsy and he is an inspiration to all of us.

Different time, different place,” I said. “Things can change. People can change.

Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.

Out of the ash I rise with my red hair and I eat men like air.