She had a weird, fleeting thought that she wanted to eat her sister, like a sorceress in a storybook – gobble her down into her belly, keep her safe.

It had to be the hardest thing, even if he’d never known it himself – to accept that the ones you loved would find their own way home.

She had seen it done. Wherever they glittered in the afterlife – flying among the high rafters of heaven, swimming with her mother in an undersea cave – she hoped the tigers had known it, and roared.

But this dagger – this was her first. Her favorite. The same one that had sliced off the boy’s toe on the beach and sent it rolling through the sand.

Take this drink as a token ofmy disrepute and spin that hay tonight and tomorrow it will be shining golden bright in whatever heavy delirious weave you wish to make.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.

Texas humor and Southern humor are pretty similar.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle that the Vatican has overlooked.

Life is not a bowl full of cherries, there's good and bad stuff.

Major, send a shell first over their heads and let them get in their holes before you open with all your guns.

I'm a huge boxing fan. I love the strategy and the combat.

It's a very bad thing when people exterminate other people, and people persecute minorities.

All you can do is make something that you like and feel proud of and then just hope for the best and try to get out of its way.

What does it matter how much we do if what we're doing isn't what matters most?