Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.

They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.

Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is.

My brother spent a large portion of the agonizingly slow drive to school banging his forehead on the stearing wheel.

No one is only good or only bad. We have a bit of both inside of us all.

But then Macon smiled at me. "Just be yourself, Foster. That's the best thing in the world.

My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.

I think my gift expressed itself in every way possible. When I was a little child, my mother said I used to draw on the walls.

In the old days, I just could not leave characters alone. Now I just try to keep the ones that still have something in the way of stories to tell.

The concepts of truth may differ. But all admit and respect truth. That truth I call God. For sometime I was saying, "God is Truth," but that did not satisfy me. So now I say, "Truth is God."

Some people only dream about touring around the world with their friends and that's exactly what we're doing, and we could never take that for granted.

I live one day at a time, one day at a time. Yesterday's gone and tomorrow is blind, so I live one day at a time.