I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life.

and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.

He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.

never's the word God listens for when he needs a laugh.

Free at last, he thought. Great God Almighty, I'm free at last. Then: I believe this is redemption. And it's good, isn't it? Quite good, indeed.

Most politicians lie for the same reason a monkey swings by his tail, which is to say because he can.

Of course it's heavier, he thought. It's got my grief in it. I pull it along with me everywhere I go, so I do.

The prosaic fact of the universe's existence alone defeats both the pragmatist and the romantic.

All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one...

The simple everyday experiences become the doorway to new thoughts and inspirations.

The Republicans proved they are not the party of 'no.' They're the party of 'f**k, no!'

From Santi's earthly tomb with demon's hole, 'Cross Rome the mystic elements unfold. The path of light is laid, the sacred test, Let angels guide you on your lofty quest.

I'll be a president that will turn our inner cities around and will give strength to people and will give economics to people and will bring jobs back.

You have 50,000 thoughts a day you might as well make them big ones.

Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise to love each other forever is the rashest of enterprises.

Teach your children or your grandchildren Chinese. It is going to be the most important language of their lifetimes.

Abject poverty is demeaning, is an assault on the dignity of those that suffer it. In the end it demeans us all. It makes the freedom of all of us less meaningful.

Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.

I guess it was easier for her to change her name than for her whole family to change theirs.