The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.

He had kissed her good night that night, and she had tasted like strawberry daiquiris, and he had never wanted to kiss anyone else again.

As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end.

Media. I think I have heard of her. Isn't she the one who killed her children?

Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead

I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.

I could be blindfolded and dropped into the deepest ocean and I would know where to find you. I could be buried a hundred miles underground and I would know where you are.

I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.

All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.

Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city.

It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much.

Her black is beautiful, his society is ugly.

What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child?

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned.

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Will still produce considerable overlook and shadowing on adjoining streets.

Sitting in an English Garden waiting for the sun If the sun don't come You get a tan from standing in the English rain.

In war, the general alone can judge of certain arrangements. It depends on him alone to conquer difficulties by his own superior talents and resolution.

Law is good, proper, and essential in its place, but law can save no man, nor can law remake man and society.

One thought includes all thought, in the sense that a grain of sand includes the universe.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.