The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do.

He gave her a look that you could have poured on a waffle.

He looked at me as if I were a side dish he hadn't ordered.

They gave each other a smile with a future in it.

How can you write if you can't cry?

Shut up,' he explained.

How do you look when I'm sober?

Frenchmen drink wine just like we used to drink water before Prohibition.

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have

Try to make the time frame the minimum the story will permit.

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.

Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you'll never run out.

when you walk the path of revenge, know that someone will always follow your trail

Oak, granite, Lilies by the road, Remember me?I remember you.Clouds brushingClover hills, Remember me?Sister, child, Grown tall, Remember me?I remember you.

Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy

First fight. Then fiddle.

Our love can't be measured. It just is.

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

When error holds so much power, play disappears. Creativity ceases.

Start from the bottom up.

Please, Achimou? (Tory) You are the only being who’s ever called me that. (Acheron) Well, I’d call you babycakes, but I think that might offend you even more. (Tory)