It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they could negotiate in silence.

Sooner or later we all lose our loved ones. We all have to suffer, every last one of us.

Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while.

These days he was like a zombie, all grim business, just another jerk with an erection.

I’m only human, she told herself. There’s not enough room in my heart for everyone.

That’s why we get involved with other people, right? Not just for their bodies, but for everything else, too – their dreams and their scars and their stories.

It’s a matter of dignity, ” the Chief explained. “At a certain point, that’s all you have left.

I’ve matured. I have a much higher tolerance for boredom.

He knew for a fact that it was possible to fall and just keep falling.

That was an important rule of any game: always make it easy for people to give you money.

When the storm rips you to pieces, you get to decide how to put yourself back together again.

Neither humans nor the Gods that they have created are superior to old Mother Nature.

Voting for a political party with a cross stuck on it doesn't mean it reflects true Christianity (at least not how Christ intended it) nor does 'biblical governance' guarantee Christian governance.

I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.

It isn't necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.

I lost my job and started painting houses with a friend. The marriage had ended about the same time the career did.

(Djinn are essentially vapor.) "I blew him away.

Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.

I'm not really interested in anybody, that's why I started rapping. I'm still a fan of Tupac. That's the only rapper that I'm still like, "Oh! Tupac!"