Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self?

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

Each time you happen to me all over again.

Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their innate tendency to have things happen to them.

It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.

..but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.

The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future.

It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country.

She threw back her head with a laugh that made her chins ripple like little waves.

Conservatives cherished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the "new people" whom New York was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to

Ah, no, he did not want May to have that kind of innocence, the innocence that seals the mind against imagination and the heart against experience...

It’s cool when fashion recycles itself, it’s not cool when sustainable living does because it means there was (and is as I write) a period of absolute and possibly irreversible destruction.

We build confidence by daring to step outside our comfort zone in small increments.

Most of the time, thank goodness, we suffer quite stupidly and unreflectingly, like the animals.

This life is a wading pool compared to the ocean call eternity.

Only a very foolish lawyer will dare guess the outcome of a jury trial.

Really good mountain bikers are lousy judges of trail difficulty. We haven't a clue, we just ride.

When I go home my mother still makes me take out the garbage.

One of the things that I've been doing recently in my scientific research is to ask this question: Is the universe actually capable of performing things like digital computations?

A win is a win, which is about that particular moment.

Language is an old-growth forest of the mind.