People create all kind of fancy watches and clocks, never stopping to realize they're building monuments to the greatest of all thieves.

Initially they waited with hope, but as each hour passed, hope slipped away like the wind, the wind that as a small boy Ethan had once tried to capture with his tiny fingers.

She chose the attractive room, not noticing the cloven hoof exposed beneath the ornate curtains. That decision has surely haunted her every day since, finally catching up to her.

The world to him no longer seemed a math equation but rather a complex piece of art, a masterpiece of things not easily understood.

That scream left her mouth and entered my head, where it's been ever since, sometimes waking me up at night.

I've left behind so many unfinished quilts in my life, beautiful pieces of dreams and intentions never fully assembled.

You can lock a lion up in a room, if you want to, but you'll still hear it growling and clawing to get out.

But forever was a useless term, relevant only for the dead.

Miss Green can call a turd a rose if she wants, but that don't mean people's going to be lining up to smell it.

Being alive is sign of strength!

How do you explain to a nonreader that books aren't just things but treasured friends? Companions?

For some, I realize, business is the all-out pursuit of profits, period, full stop, but for us business was no more about making money than being human is about making blood.

We are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre any day of the week that we want to give them their head.

From the viewpoint of analytic psychology, the theatre, aside from any aesthetic value, may be considered as an institution for the treatment of the mass complex.

I used to wear heels because I wanted to show people I wasn't ashamed of being tall.

Get ready; if the Democrats take the House, your taxes are going up.

It's no wonder we know how to dress; we've spent centuries in closets.

We had been frightened of atomic weapons since 1945. In those days I became convinced - and remain convinced now - that, after Hitler, Truman was the greatest murderer in the world.

I'd like to meet you In a timeless placeless place Somewhere out of context And beyond all consequences.