The earth's orbit didn't slow down. The world didn't stop falling. Slowly, very, very slowly, Michael started to sink to his knees.

It's time to start living the life you've imagined.

It is the tendency of deep feeling to subdue the manner rather than to render it too energetic.

Like opium, nerve annihilation stretches up my veins to pump incinerating anguish through my body.

A mere four giant meatpacking companies (Tyson subsidiary IBP, Cargill subsidiary Excel, Swift & Company, and National) now slaughter and market four of every five beef cattle born in this country

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.

All writers start with a layer of truth, don't they? If not, their stories would be nothing but spools of cotton candy, a fleeting taste wrapped around nothing but air.

Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.

I want to show all sides of myself. I mean, I don't want to howl at the moon my whole life, you know?

The living room should be a place where we feel totally at ease - temple of the soul.

Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are. There is no smaller package in all the world than that of a man all wrapped up in himself.