Smiling without good reason is demeaning.

I try to say one thing with my work: A book is a wonderful place to be. A book is a package, a gift package, a surprise package-and within the wrappings is a whole new world and beyond.

The sun sets in the west (just about everyone knows that), but Sunset Towers faced east. Strange!

Your trouble comes from years of wearing the wrong kind of shoes. - Jake Wexler

I remember the will said, 'May God thy gold refine.' That must be from the Bible." "Shakespeare," Turtle said. All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare.

The poor are crazy, the rich just eccentric. - James Shin Hoo

Grace said,"Dr. Wexler was called away on an emergency operation." "An emergency Packers game in Green Bay," Turtle confided to Flora Baumbach.

I remember the will said, 'May God thy gold refine.' That must be from the Bible.""Shakespeare, " Turtle said. All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare.

Grace sat down where the chair wasn't.

Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows.

I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.

By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.

In a formal socialization, no one individual can stand without the other to rely on, regardless of the situation.

Every stage of life is a chapter of a book.

Watch out! It's quite possible that some of my best mistakes haven't yet been made.

But Sergio Leone invented totally the way of, you know, the details, the eyes, the hands - fantastic.

I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.

I like to sit on the front porch of an old cabin I built in the woods and just listen to the birds; I like to fish in the pond and I always throw the fish back.

I reiterate that I am strongly committed to working with those on all sides of politics to improve how Parliament operates.

I couldn't feel good about myself hanging out in Armani clothes when my girlfriend can't even pay her heating bill. I'd feel foul and I'd be embarrassed.