It doesn't matter that you didn't believe in us, " said Mr. Ibis. "We believed in you.

He had kissed her good night that night, and she had tasted like strawberry daiquiris, and he had never wanted to kiss anyone else again.

As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end.

Media. I think I have heard of her. Isn't she the one who killed her children?

Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead

The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.

I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.

I could be blindfolded and dropped into the deepest ocean and I would know where to find you. I could be buried a hundred miles underground and I would know where you are.

I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.

All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.

Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city.

Prayer leads to peace.

Preaching a man a sermon with a broken head and telling him to be right with God is equal to telling a man with a broken leg to get up and run a race.

A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.

You don't want to go around willy-nilly suing news organizations. That's probably self-defeating.

I like that kind of stuff. I like doing speeches. I've been lucky because I've had a lot of characters, over the years, who will have three or four page speeches.

The great task of life is transmission: the task of transmitting the essential tools and graces of life from our parents to our children

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

If you're making music, you must want to turn other people on to it, whether you're number one in the charts or number 60.

Every present occasion will catch the senses of the vain man; and with that bridle and saddle you may ride him.

I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.