She was like a lone angel floating above the surface of the earth, laughing with delight because she could fly but crying out of loneliness.

A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.

Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.

If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.

Often I wish this would all be over, Liesel, but then somehow you do something like walk down the basement steps with a snowman in your hands.

I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.

I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skills is their capacity to escalate.

No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment.

It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement.

As always, one of her books was next to her.

If you can't imagine it, think clumsy silence. Think bits and pieces of floating despair. And drowning in a train.

There are natural phases to all life and wherever you are in life, you are perfectly becoming.

It's amazing how important your job is when you want the day off - and how unimportant it is when you want a raise.

Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.

My expertise is running businesses.

Bottom is bottom, even if it is turned upside down.

A person cannot be a Marine without honor.

We are older by faith than by experience.

It is a natural impossibility for any man to make a binding contract, by which he shall surrender to others a single one of what are commonly called his 'natural, inherent, inalienable rights.'

I've never really had a favorite player, past or present.

I was taught to believe, "If you work hard, you will be successful. If you are not successful, it is because you didn't work hard enough."