How many times have you been called an abomination?” he whispers. “A monster? Worthle

We are the children of gods and angels.

The king is dead. Long live the queen.

Through the whirlwind, I hear my father's harsh whi

He was the last thread suspending me in the light. Without him, I can feel myself spiraling downward, falling to a place where I can no longer pull myself back up.

The darkness seeps in a little more every day. What have I done? How can I be like this?

No one wants you to be yourself. They want you to be the version of yourself that they like

Sorry, always sorry. What in the world can you buy with an apology?

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Sometimes you have to walk through the fire, in order to reach your calling.

In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.

That Cabot merely landed on the uninhabitable shore of Labrador gave the English no just title to New England, or to the United States generally, any more than to Patagonia.

You're never healing the level you're on. You're always healing the level you came from. For example, you know things today that you didn't know in your first marriage.

Genius has no age, no country, no race; it belongs to mankind.

Whatever part drink may play in the writer's life, it must play none in his or her work.

I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive.

I think really good books can be read by anybody.

One day I'll be old, dead, forgotten. And at this very moment, while I'm sitting here thinking these things, a man in a dingy hotel room is thinking, "I will always be here."