Tell me." Edward had to raise his voice a little. "Do you live by the principle that what people don't know can't hurt them?" "No," Harper replied. "What people don't know can't hurt me.

To fear what you do not understand is to mistake ignorance for safety.

I'm so glad to be grouped with the men you've seen in rotten shape. My hope is that someday I will reach the pinnacle of that appalling list.

It was a lazy community of mutual disinterest and alcohol.

Let me go!" She tore off a mirror and brandished it in his face. "I mean it! I don't want to go to your godforsaken hellbarn, you retarded psycho farmer!

I will walk without noise and I will open the door in darkness and I will

Writers don't kill characters. Characters kill characters.

Without prosperity the fullness of human happiness is not possible.

This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.

I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.

My experiences taught me firsthand that when a person is not performing well, there are many possible reasons, some not of his own choosing.

The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through.

Much was said and written, at the time, concerning the policy of adding the vast regions of Louisiana, to the already immense, and but half-tenanted territories of the United-States.

If it was up to me, I’d choose the hard path with the easy ending, not the easy path with the hard end.