I guess you just have to trust your kids, trust that their innate interest in life will win out in the end, don’t you think?

It was that impossible thing: happiness that does not wilt to reveal the thin shoots of some new desire rising from within it.

Every step was a victory. He had to remember that.

A bad thing happened to you kids, Dad said. But it could have been worse.So much worse, Mom said.But because of you kids, Dad said, it wasn't.You did so good, Mom said.Did beautiful, Dad said.

Josh joined her at the window. She let him look. He should know that the world was not all lessons and iguanas and Nintendo. It was also this muddy simple boy tethered like an animal.

Is this the baby?" I said.Ma turned on me again."What do you think it is?" she said. "A midget that can't talk?

The thing about girls? Suzanne said. Is we are more content-driven.

Both teams are making mistakes. Florida's making these itsy-bitsy little ones, and Tennessee is making huge, gigantic mistakes.

I have a lot of novels that I haven't finished. I usually get 150 pages in and I realize it's not going anywhere. I don't publish everything I write. I must have six unfinished novels at least.

Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.

My soul is nothing now but the dream dreamt by matter struggling with itself!

If you didn't believe in objective truth, arguments would be just toys, or games, or jokes.

I rant and rave about noise pollution.

Do your best and forget the consequences.

A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty.

Here is neither want of appetite nor mouths, Pray heaven we be not scant of meat or mirth.

One agonizing journey down the gauntlet of youth is enough for any man.