Should is my all time least favorite word. It’s this sort of guilt inducing, finger wagging word that we use to beat up others and ourselves.

And even, if circumstances required, a contingency plan for his contingency plan's contingency plan.

For no matter what the world, men who deal in headwear are men to be trusted above any other.

But I killed you,” Alyss said. “Did you?” Red turned to The Cat. “Why wasn’t I informed?

I think I speak for all of us when I say, "Huh?"

He talked to himself because there weren't many people as learned as he, and he liked to talk to learned people.

I'm feeling generous today. You get to live.

Only the previous day, Arch had found him in a spirit-dance corral, blistering the creatures to the point of death, such was his need to touch and destroy.

I'm stronger than you are, Redd.

Most of life is unbearable. It’s unbearable but we bear it

You can't spend so much time in a place and not carry a bit of it inside you.

You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't.

The Bible warns that money cannot buy happiness! Money cannot buy true pleasure. Money cannot buy peace of heart. And money certainly cannot buy entrance into the kingdom of God.

It had been horrible, yes, and he'd never want to do it again - but it truly was his most powerful experience.

No nation has ever taxed itself into prosperity.

All those religions--they contradict each other on every point but every one of them is filled with ways to help people to be brave enough to laugh even though they know they are dying.

What's talent but the ability to get away with something?

Confidence is not 'they will like me'. Confidence instead is 'I'll be fine if they don't'.

To understand bad taste one must have very good taste.

As our eyes age, they have a tougher and tougher time adjusting to rapid changes in lighting, and we need to be aware of this.

A novelist is someone who sits around the house all day in his underwear, trying not to smoke.