The last dead leaves of fall crackled underfoot, winter-crisp.

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

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

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.

I've had extraordinary good luck with my health, other than a broken elbow.

How smart does a chimpanzee have to be before killing him constitutes murder?

I thought it would be such a sick joke to have to remain to be alive for decades and not believe in or feel anything.

Shooting for the top will bring out the best that's in you.

I am sailing with thee through the dizzy sky! How beautiful thou art!

When your science runs into a policy roadblock, all of a sudden the science starts to disappear.

If I had not been discriminated against or had not suffered persecution, I would never have received the Nobel Prize.

Order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.

Amtrak offers riders a cost-effective way to travel throughout the country.

[T]hey stretch you on a table. Then they bid you close your eyelids, And they mask you with a napkin, And the anæsthetic reaches Hot and subtle through your being.