Max lifted his head, with great sorrow and great astonishment.'There were stars, ' He said. 'They burned my eyes.’...from a Himmel street window, he wrote, the stars set fire to my eyes.

A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.

Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.

If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.

Often I wish this would all be over, Liesel, but then somehow you do something like walk down the basement steps with a snowman in your hands.

I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.

I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skills is their capacity to escalate.

No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment.

It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement.

As always, one of her books was next to her.

If you can't imagine it, think clumsy silence. Think bits and pieces of floating despair. And drowning in a train.

Bloody ashes, woman. This isn't a metaphor for anything! It's just boots.

From Jewish terrorism against Arabs it is a short step to Jewish terrorism against Jews.

Ningauble shrugged. You're a hero. You should know.

The Heavens are as deep as our aspirations are high.

A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.

I'm feeling better than anybody expected me to so I'm still maintaining a pretty normal schedule, I'd say.

What is success? It isn't only about winning, but playing in a certain way.

It is the only point of getting up every morning: to paint, to make something good, to make something even better than before, not to give up, to compete, to be ambitious.

Promises are worse than lies. You don't just make them believe, you also make them hope.

High tax rates that people don't actually pay do not bring the government as much revenue as lower tax rates that they do pay.