She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.

If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.

Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.

If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.

Jesus is more likely to lead you across the street than across the ocean.

The physical signs of measles are nearly the same as those of smallpox, but nausea and inflammation is more severe, though the pains in the back are less.

Ah, Bartleby! Ah, humanity!

Do not waste this life in vain pursuits.

I'm not saying these flying discs don't really exist, but nobody living in Kansas City has seen them and that's a dry state.

A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her.

You were firing questions at me today, trying to get inside my head. You asked if I believe in God. I told you of course I do - I've always had a strong sense of self

He made her play and she had almost forgotten how. Life had been so serious and so bitter. He knew how to play and swept her along with him.

Each second is a second you can make a new choice, a better choice, a healthy choice, a present choice.

Now is my time. Everything I've done up to this point is just a warm up. This is where it all begins.