Perhaps the greatest worry of all was that one day you would realize that all the worries of your life amounted to one thing: the desire to just stop worrying.

What strange places our lives can carry us to, what dark passages.

And then, despite all these concerns, Arnette felt her mind begin to loosen, the images of the day unwinding inside her like a spool of thread, pulling her down into sleep.

Zander was always sneaking off to the library to get more books ... Guy would read anything. Said books were more interesting than people.

He has to come to it on his own.

The best discoveries always happened to the people who weren't looking for them.

No-one ever built a statue of a critic.

On the Firehole I caught thirty-six inches worth of trout - in six installments.

I don't have to be told the same thing in the same words every single day for the next eight years.

I don't hate anybody. My character is one thing, but me as an individual is completely different.

Black people watch more television than anybody else, which makes it legitimate to talk about television. Its anesthetizing effect has been quite real. But that concern isn't new.

I think the cleverness is inadvertent.

The debt is like a crazy aunt we keep down in the basement. All the neighbors know she's there, but nobody wants to talk about her.

Until you play it, St. Andrews looks like the sort of real estate you couldn't give away.

Intoxicated with madness, I'm in love with my sadness