It was almost enough to make me feel emotion.

And I was having too much fun to stop now.

I had killed our careful relationship by driving my tongue through its heart and pushing it off a cliff.

The mind picks some very bad times to take a walk doesn't it?

A man can take only so much. Even a phony man like me.

Was insanity really easier to accept than unconsciousness?

In its own way the kiss had been an act of murder.

Really now: If you can't get me my newspaper on time, how can you expect me to refrain from killing people?

It was such an unexpected and genuine smile that if I only had a soul I'm sure I would have felt quite guilty.

I think that's nice, and if I could have feelings at all I would have them for Deb.

For the first time I could remember, I felt weak, woozy and stupid— like a human-being. Like a very small and helpless human-being.

Nobody is going to hand you success. You have to hand yourself to success.

A karate practitioner should possess two things : wicked hands, and Buddha's heart

The practice of meditation is a way of continuing one's confusion, chaos, aggression, and passion—but working with it, seeing it from the enlightened point of view.

Ah, I'm a woman that's been clear around the world in my rocking chair, and I tell you we all get surprises now and then.

I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil.

There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.

Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.

We've got very few bodies right now so we were tired, but we've also got a lot of character and we want to win.

God made the country, and man made the town.

The more powerful the villain is the more powerful the hero.