I loved the full heat of being drunk, like I was made of melting chocolate and spreading in all directions.

It was a look that suggested emotions happening just past your line of sight: a grief so deep you'd never be able to see it, a love so fierce it could swallow itself completely.

After a long time in laboratories, psychologists have discovered the holy grail of a happy marriage: I applied it and it didn't work

Memories are small prayers to God, if we believed in that sort of thing.

She wished she had eyes like her sister, huge and bright, constantly straddling the line between terrified child and ingénue.

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find it in the traditional myths and their rationalizations.

It does feel really good to sing songs about somebody that I really respect, admire, love, care about and am so passionately attracted to after all this time.

We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.

In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from a knave.

Retribution is a dog chasing its tail.

Crikey means gee whiz, wow!