Oh, my love, ' she said. 'What do the only children do?''We'll never have to know.

The entire time Albie followed Beverly around the house doing what the children referred to as “the stripper soundtra

The two sisters were connected by neither love nor mutual affinity but by a very small bathroom that could be entered from the bedroom on either side.

Bad habits were all a matter of perspective, and as long as the present was viewed through the lens of the past, anyone would say he was doing a spectacular job.

Zen- Dojo Tozan was not in Sarnen or Thu but somewhere between the two, not in a village but in the tall grass and blue flowers.

She didn't know how to hate her mother yet, but every time she left her father crying in the airport she came that much closer to figuring it out.

Isn't that what everyone wants, just for a moment to be unencumbered?

Somebody's going to have to make the money to buy you all those books.""They're free, " Franny said. "I check them out of the library.""Well, thank God for libraries, " Caroline said.

With clothes, I like mixing what different designers do until it becomes a personal expression of how I'm feeling that day.

I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.

You get the Timothy Leary you deserve.

We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%

I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves... only about you.

Allah is not Jehovah either. Jehovah's not going to turn you into a terrorist that'll try to bomb people and take the lives of thousands and thousands of people.

Don't let other people's conversations about what you're doing or you've done be part of your own conversation.

We are captives, even if our wheat grows over the fences/ and swallows rise from our broken chains./ We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.

There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty.

There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government.