How can days and happenings and moments so good become so quickly ugly, and for no reason, for no real reason? Just - change.With nothing causing it.

It's easy to win. Anybody can win.

Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.

If the last to know he’s an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected.

Sometimes I wish I knew how to go crazy. I forget how.

That's what it means to die, to not be able to stop looking at whatever's in front of you. Some darn thing placed directly there, with nothing you can do about it...

The gulf between their world and hers had manifested itself, however much they'd meditated on how to ball her, and remained.

When do I see a photograph, when a reflection?

Heaven is a big place, honey. I don't know every dead person.''They'd probably be in hell anyway.

Most times, the worst of situations can become a compass to the best of situations

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

How much vanity must be concealed – not too effectively at that – in order to pretend that one is the personal object of a divine plan?

The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.

God's guiding hand, the guiding Voice, resting lightly upon us is best felt and heard when we are silent and still.

Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.

Noah's wife, who said to him after 40 days and 40 nights, It's your turn to spread the papers on the floor! Never got a dinner!

The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational.

No, she thought, one could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low.