It was a smooth silvery voice that matched her hair. It had a tiny tinkle in it, like bells in a doll's house. I thought that was silly as soon as I thought of it.

I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings.

Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in, although only one of them was dead.

Under the thinning fog the surf curled and creamed, almost without sound, like a thought trying to form inself on the edge of consciousness.

I sat down on the edge of a deep soft chair and looked at Mrs Regan. She was worth a stare. She was trouble.

You're broke, eh?"I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.

He didn't know the right people. That's all a police record means in this rotten crime-ridden country.

Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible.

I believe his lies, so he believes mine.' She turns and looks at me straight on. 'That's how it goes at the end of love.

As long as there are rich people who have poor people they can send to fight their wars.. We will never have peace

It's weak to speak and blame somebody else ...When you destroy yourself.

If you carry a gun, people will call you paranoid. That's ridiculous. If I have a gun, what in the hell do I have to be paranoid about?

View a stumbling block as a learning opportunity. If you allow it to defeat you, it will. Honestly, if I give everything I have, I can't be disappointed with the outcome.

If you were to sell your character, would you get full retail or would it go for a bargain-basement price?

Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best.

I'm not like Madonna. I haven't changed my lilt in my voice.

My courses do not intimidate. Instead, they encourage the player to play well and become more open to the enjoyable aspects of the game.