Peering around her, I took note exactly where the hundred metre high cliff started. i didn't want to be taking an unexpected flying lesson today.

Who was that?” Layetta asked.“Nobody.”“You can’t take a phone call from nobody. That meansthere is no one on the other end of the phone, meaning no phone call. So. Who was it?” I asked.

You two would get on like a house on fire. Don't douse the flames before you've struck a match.

I gazed up at the stars as I waited. They twinkled down at me, like a huge handful of diamonds someone had coated in glue and thrown on the ceiling.

My nerves came back in full force. I'd thrown myself in the deep end, and, feeling like I had no idea how to swim, I had to get back to shore somehow. "I'm sorry, " I whispered.

Sometimes I found it hard to believe that the person in the mirror was me.

The less you feed the ego, the stronger you will be.

We worry too much about the future. And fail to enjoy the moment.

I just never noticed how little of me existed before. I was a shadow without a person.

One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.

They say that adultery is the main thing that can damage a marriage, but it's not. It's boredom.

Remember, we are not fighting for the freedom of the Negro alone, but for the freedom of the human spirit a larger freedom that encompasses all mankind.

As I said, this was my sarcastic summer. It was only long after that I recognized sarcasm as the protest of people who are weak.

My own background is fairly liberal and so this notion of 'protecting women from outside intrusion' is not in my nature, nor in my upbringing.

I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.