If at first you don't succeed, lower you expectations

I may not be old but I’m too old to have this much nothing

Fate already warned us to pack it in. We just didn’t hear it in time.

...you realize that you don't understand yourself any better than you understand anyone else.

There's always a last time. If you could remember every last time, you'd never stop grieving.

...she'll cry, and if she does, I probably will, and then she'll have found a way in, and I will not let her pierce my walls in a Trojan horse of sympathy.

His voice was oily and slick as it poured from his mouth like liquid acid, threatening to hook onto the woman's hair like a fishing hook and drag her back to death.

The very last thing I needed was fire burning through my palms.

When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.

The doctor-patient relationship is critical to the placebo effect.

Troops of heroes undistinguished die.

Preachers err by trying to talk people into belief; better they reveal the radiance of their own discovery.

I was lucky. I grew up knowing that hard work and smart work has a greater impact on results than being passionate about something.

The Gospel is not an alternative, it’s an ultimatum.

Each time I think there is no place lower to go, I find that there is at least one place that will mess you up worse than you were.

Looking comparatively at the good things, you will see that they are not excluded from wisdom, humanity and bravery.