I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings.

Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in, although only one of them was dead.

Under the thinning fog the surf curled and creamed, almost without sound, like a thought trying to form inself on the edge of consciousness.

I sat down on the edge of a deep soft chair and looked at Mrs Regan. She was worth a stare. She was trouble.

It was a smooth silvery voice that matched her hair. It had a tiny tinkle in it, like bells in a doll's house. I thought that was silly as soon as I thought of it.

You're broke, eh?"I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.

He didn't know the right people. That's all a police record means in this rotten crime-ridden country.

By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.

All due respect to the Resurrection, but two-becoming-one might be the greatest miracle ever.

I know everything must be a lie, but I believe it anyway.

If you don't know the question, you are not ready for the answer.

I don't want to say the wrong thing, which I always do. I think I do better when I sing.

Gazzy: "Just Ten?" Angel: "No." Gazzy: "Five?" Angel: "No.

I could never sit down and write jokes.

The smartest thing I ever did was to hire my weakness.

I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let her have her way on this one

Sometimes I feel like I'm on top of the world, and other mornings I feel like crap.