Pots can show malice, the patterns of linoleum can leer up at you, treachery is the other side of dailiness.

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.

Truthfully, she was the best thing in his life and he was a complete idiot if he let her walk away from him.

Madness, and then illumination.

It takes a lot of faith, courage, persistence, and perseverance to live the life of a winner. But in the end, it will surely worth every blood, sweat, and tears.

The higher level of grand strategy [is] that of conducting war with a far-sighted regard to the state of the peace that will follow.

Solitude is the furnace of transformation.

I wouldn't wear a tie-dyed tee-shirt unless it was dyed with the urine of Phil Collins and the blood of Jerry Garcia.

the two major parties too often present us with a choice of the evil of two lessers.

A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate.

Man is no man, but a wolf

Freedom is not to be destroyed in the name of love. Freedom is a far higher value than your so-called love.