One stroke of lightning does not have to lead anywhere, but to the next stroke of lightning.

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind. When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.

I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.

The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.

In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.

My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.

Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.

Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.

Other translations may engage the mind, but the King James Version is the Bible of the heart.

A product should be made intentionally

History must repeat itself because we pay such little attention to it the first time.

i remember we all cried like the Missouri when my Uncle Sol's coffin lurched because somebody pressed a button (and down went my uncle Sol and started a worm farm)

Every animal that walks the earth, or swims, or flies is precious beyond description, something so rare and wonderful that it equals the stars or the ocean or the mind of man.

No one will ever accuse James Carville of taking himself seriously.

A man is rich whose income is larger than his expenses, and he is poor if his expenses are greater than his income.

There wasn't anti-Semitism in France.

The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.

Birds teach us something very important: To whatever height you rise, you will finally come down to the ground!