The day will probably come when you can tell everything about a person from his dreams except his age and weight.

The smell of moist earth and lilacs hung in the air like wisps of the past and hints of the future.

the smell of lilacs crept poignantly into the room like a remembered spring.

Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines.

Shrews are made, not born.

You can't drown your troubles ... because troubles can swim.

There is no such thing as an ex-exhibitionist.

When you're counting alibis and not apples, one plus one equals none.

Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius.

When someone gives me three reasons instead of one, I'm inclined not to believe any of them.

I wish people would quit telling me to think. I think. Thinking's easy. It's not thinking that's hard.

The line from psychologists is, if you’ve seen it before, it hasn’t killed you yet.

I get physical, mystical, very artistical... Giving party people something funky to listen to.

If in my fight I can encourage even some people to understand and to abandon policies they now so blindly follow, I shall not regret any punishment I may incur.

A rapid bolt will rend the clouds apart, and every single White be seared by wounds. I tell you this. I want it all to hurt.

The truth is, that the military people are so important to our country.

My characters are never heroic. They are mostly lost and trying to find the right door to open and they end up opening the wrong doors.

I want to live, I want to give, I've been a miner for a heart of gold.

When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.

Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him.

Protecting the dignity and the security our seniors have earned is a commitment that spans generations and party lines.