Living is very serious, very real. It is also always a game. If we are wise, it is very real, very terrible, and very lovely, and a good deal of fun.

I do love you. I think you know that, but just in case...I love you.

Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.

It's okay to play turtle for a while, as long as you don't get too fond of your shell.

Religion turned some folks belligerent.

People always wanted someone to blame, didn't they?

Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent.

How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words?

Who wants to feel everything everyone else feels all the time?

Regrets are the most useless form of guilt. They always arrive too late to do any good.

Isen wasn't a two birds with one stone kind of guy. More like one stone, two birds, a rabbit, a fox, and maybe that deer will trip over the fox and we can get him, too.

June cackled with delight, muttering, "Whoops!" as a car almost killed them.

When life hands you the unthinkable you must find new ways to see.

I must choose to cease from suffering or to cease from loving.

What strange places our lives can carry us to, what dark passages.

Though the people support the government the government should not support the people.

Sure, people talk about all kinds of stuff at the office, but surely everyone has better things to do than sound like they're auditioning for Fox News.

My goal is to be the undisputed Heavyweight Champion of the World.

The only reality is in the moment. What you are doing counts.

Don't be like a train; don't travel on the same path! Thousands of different paths are waiting for you to walk! Don't be like a train!

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.