Once you’ve gotten used to a certain kind of smell from a certain kind of flesh, whether it’s a lover or a rotting corpse, you long for it when it’s not around. Or maybe it’s just me.

Men do everything that men do, from waging war to reading books, for one purpose only: to get laid.

All nineteen-year-old males are children who are men capable of war.

The problem with freedom is that when people have it, they do what they want to.

Don’t you wonder sometimes, ” Miranda asked, “whether women have all the power or no power at all?

That’s what nobody admits about men, how needy they are.

That was what maturity was: accepting things. The more things you accepted, the more mature you were.

Praising heroes who slay monsters is a writer’s most ancient task.

Arthur, do you think the fall of the Wall means anything? Do you think that this means that even one fewer body will burn?

Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in "telling would-be clients that they are damned fool's, and should stop.

In the company of the Soul's inner guidance, let us celebrate all we are destined to know.

I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.

True penance consists in regretting without ceasing the faults of the past, and in firmly resolving to never again commit that which is so deplorable.

I would be happy at a piano bar, singing. I just want to home in on being the best singer I can be.

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching

Our human nature is profoundly phototropic. Men obey their deepest instincts when they hold fast to light.

I don't know how people box for a living. I don't know how they can just hurt people for a living and be OK with it.

Detroit needs a turnaround, not a check.

Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.