My life was my life; I would have to stare it down, somehow, and make it work for me.

It was our favorite part of the day, this in-between time, and it always seemed to last longer than it should--a magic and lavender space unpinned from the hours around it, between worlds.

Sometimes I wish we could rub out all of our mistakes and start fresh, from the beginning,' I said. 'And sometimes I think there isn't anything to us but our mistakes.

Maybe happiness was an hourglass already running out, the grains tipping, sifting past each other. Maybe it was a state of mind.

If I can write one sentence, simple and true every day, I'll be satisfied.

I miss good old-fashioned honorable people just trying to make something of life. Simply, without hurting anyone else. I know that makes me a sap.

Dogs are easy. If their tails are up and their eyes are soft, you're in.

Not everyone out in a storm wants to be saved

I'd had my share of rain. My mother's illness ... had weighed on me, but the years before had been heavy, too. I was only twenty eight.

She was also incredibly confident, with a way of moving and talking that communicated that she didn't need anyone to tell her she was beautiful or worthwhile.

I knew that I could hate him all I wanted for the way he was hurting me, but I couldn’t ever stop loving him, absolutely, for what he was.

It is your own habits of thinking which give you mastery in any field of achievement

We will talk about the contrast between both parties' nominees and our desire to continue to build on our success in helping people reach the middle class.

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

Things really began to move for us. In 1953 I could afford to marry Doreen.

More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude.

Mozart died too late rather than too soon.

Where is your Self to be found? Always in the deepest enchantment that you have experienced.

As she turned to concentrate on the portal, Eve tugged on Claire's shirt. "What?" "Ask him where he got the boots." "You ask." Personally, Claire wanted the vampire bunny slippers.

I do not believe in terrorism, violence, destruction, murder, pre-emption, or War.

The only reason I ever played in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.