It could be worse. I could be you.

A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.

Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.

If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.

Often I wish this would all be over, Liesel, but then somehow you do something like walk down the basement steps with a snowman in your hands.

I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.

I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skills is their capacity to escalate.

No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment.

It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement.

As always, one of her books was next to her.

If you can't imagine it, think clumsy silence. Think bits and pieces of floating despair. And drowning in a train.

Destination is a primordial intention born in the mind of the creator that promoted him to create a certain object of inanimate nature, animate nature and the highest creature, a human being

Your life is the product of your thoughts

Some people have enough dust on their bibles to write damnation on it.

I'm not going to judge what I do.

Sorrow is Mount Sinai. If one will, one may go up and talk with God, face to face.

I just recently became aware of how tenuous my life is. I don't have time for fear.

Press releases tell us when federal agencies do something right, but the Freedom of Information Act lets us know when they do not.

I have noticed that these days, people don't want to take their time to succeed.

Books make great gifts because... [they don't] come in any particular size, so you don't have to be embarrassed if you bought somebody the wrong size.

A few years back, this guy [Barack Obama] would be serving us coffee.