Plot is merely the mechanism by which your character is forced up against her deepest fears and desires.

How much weight can carry a thought which does not acknowledge that it is an illusion?

Contentment is the continuing act of accepting the process of your own life.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his own devices or his own thoughts.

Man is dragged hither and thither, at one moment by the blind instincts of the forest, at the next by the strange intuitions of a higher self whose rationale he doubts and does not understand.

Mrs Bawden yanked me away from the table and dragged me across the food hall. I tried to twist away from her, but she had a grip like a python on steroids.

There was a band playing in my head, And I felt like getting high

put the car in "d" set the compass to "n" and get the "f"out of there

You know, at 35 or at 38 or 40 you really start to see what your body could look like if you just don't do anything all winter long. So that's another motivating factor, our vanity.

Whoever the last true cowboy in America turns out to be, he's likely to be an Indian.