Oh. I see. People don't want to see what can't possibly exist.

He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.

It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever, " he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?

How do you get all those coins?" asked Mort.IN PAIRS.

His granny taught him to read, see. I reckon it overheated his mind.

I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, he said, BUT I COULD MURDER A CURRY.

And he goes around killing people?” said Mort. He shook his head. “There’s no justice.”Death sighed. No, he said... there’s just me.

It struck Mort with sudden, terrible poignancy that Death must be the loneliest creature in the universe. In the great party of Creation, he was always in the kitchen.

Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .

The effect of change in surroundings is like that of lapse of time in making the past seem remote.

The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.

I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.

If these restrictions were necessary, the FDA would have promulgated them in the first place, the FDA knows how to evaluate scientific information. Congress knows nothing about that.

If he does he's a fool," said Hazael. "The message is clear. Please enjoy this lovely fruit while contemplating all the ways we might kill you in your sleep.

Louise Gluck, C.K. Williams, Thomas Lux. A lot of the poets that I like are the ones that influenced me as a writer.

I can only become perfectly free by serving the will of God.

As long as hunger exists, peace cannot prevail.