I don't know what happened to me, " he said, shaking his head. "I honestly don't." ... "You grew up, Alex.

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.

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.

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.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

Light generates life and causes it to grow.

Watch your back. Ain't a thing in armor worth trustin' out there.

The most dangerous trap is just living and forgetting that God exists.

I think a breakup can be the beginning of a friendship. That's not me trying to make everything OK - it's me saying, "No, we love each other. Let's not pretend we don't."

Who, or why, or which, or what, Is the Akhond of Swat?

Nothing brings fear to my heart more than a floating point number.

For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.

The great wisdom of life is that we can be masters of the things that try to enslave us.