Mostly you are what they think you are.

He had kissed her good night that night, and she had tasted like strawberry daiquiris, and he had never wanted to kiss anyone else again.

As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end.

Media. I think I have heard of her. Isn't she the one who killed her children?

Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead

The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.

I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.

I could be blindfolded and dropped into the deepest ocean and I would know where to find you. I could be buried a hundred miles underground and I would know where you are.

I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.

All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.

Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city.

No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.

I became married at a young age and had two daughters and divorced at 26. I had to go on welfare to make ends meet. I had no way to support myself.

I think it is important to know when to be hard on yourself and when to let things go, but always keep going.

If we don't have workers organized into labor unions, we're in great peril of losing our democracy.

If you were a crayon, what color would you most like to make out with?

If you Google 'regret and tattoo,' you will get 11.5 million hits.

God does not give grace freely in the sense that He will demand no satisfaction, but He gave Christ to be the satisfaction for us.

Everything without God is pathetically inferior to God without everything.

It is always well to get near to men of genius.

Yea from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records.