Okay, well...how's that water feeling, then?' 'Excuse me?' 'The Nile warm this time of the year?

Falling into ruin was a bit like falling in love: Both descents stripped you bare and left you as you were at your core. And both endings are equally painful.

V had a passing thought that she used the word "anyway" like an eraser on a crowded chalkboard. She said it whenever she needed to clear off the things she'd just shared to make room for more.

But then, gifts are like beauty, are they not. It is in the eye of the recipient that they find their seat, not in the hand of the giver.

Man, it was a good thing vampires didn't get cancer. Lately he'd been chain-smoking like a felon.

An active mind didn't need distractions in its physical environment. It needed a collection of outstanding books and a good lamp. Maybe some cheese and crackers.

A book unopened alters not the ink on its pages. What is there is there.

Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry.

I have no time in the world but the time in which I amand that lasts a moment and passes like a cloud.

I did not want to leave the Mets and I did not want to leave New York.

I don't take any of the medications I took when I was younger: antibiotics, antacids, aspirin, asthma inhalers, ulcer medication, allergy shots.

There is something very appealing about a room which one occupied as a child; it brings back one's childhood more vividly than anything else I know.

The church is not a religious community of worshippers of Christ but is Christ himself who has taken form among people.

Great stories happen to those who can tell them.

I grew up watching PBS and wanting to be a part of it, just like HBO.

We have an anti-choice president, an anti-choice House and Senate. They might pass a national ban. It's already virtually impossible for people in some areas to get an abortion.

Sometimes sports can provide a medicine that no doctor can provide.