His mind is like that. On the inside, where he never smiles.

When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.

I can't understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there's already so much pain in the world.

In the years since, I've discovered there's a lot to be said for boredom.

But sooner or later the last good time would come around. It does for all of us.

We're not quite ending where we began, but close enough.Close enough.

...there are worse things than losing the girl.

God and heaven lasted about four years longer than the Tooth Fairy

I was tired of just letting things happen to me and then feeling bad about them.

The last good time always comes

A writer learns that easy to read is hard to write ...

I use bits and pieces of others personalities to form my own.

Great achievers see failure as a stepping stone to success.

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.

A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.

In my stiff, brocaded gown. With my powdered hair and jeweled fan, I too am a rare Pattern.

We can take full comfort in realizing the continuing strength of our nation. Americas lands remain radiantly rich with diversity, and freedom still reigns.

If providing a platform for white supremacists makes me a brilliant tactician I am glad to have laws.

You are led, when you share your loves, to an enchanted life of inner happiness, which unsharing others cannot know.

I think part of the success which Structuralist or post-Structuralist thought in critical theory has had in literary studies in American universities is due to a theoretical vacuum.