I'd been busy, busy, so busy, preparing for life, while life floated by me, quiet and swift as a regatta.

Veins raised themselves along the backs of my hands that summer. My handwriting changed several times. I began reading Time magazine. Soon after that it was time to go.

Even if you are a loser today, it doesn’t mean that you cannot change yourself

I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old maids.

The elixir of life is a bubbling stream of laughter.

Our human resources as marshalled by the will were not sufficient they failed utterly.... Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God's will into all our activities.

If Fortune calls offer him a seat.

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

Being on tour is like being in limbo. It's like going from nowhere to nowhere.

One more thing," Jace said. "Is there a holy place around here?" “Good idea. If you're going to take on a lair of vampires by yourself, you'd better pray first.

My father was absent and he was a hero to me.

Does being a feminist mean that I believe that I'm as good as any man? Yes.