The paper landed on the table, but the news was stapled to his chest. A tattoo.

A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.

Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.

If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.

Often I wish this would all be over, Liesel, but then somehow you do something like walk down the basement steps with a snowman in your hands.

I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.

I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skills is their capacity to escalate.

No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment.

It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement.

As always, one of her books was next to her.

If you can't imagine it, think clumsy silence. Think bits and pieces of floating despair. And drowning in a train.

Waiting is often the best part of the story, " he explains. "After all, once you know the story, its over.

As it is for a person, so it is for a company: having a sense of purpose is invigorating and motivating.

To find solace in the wrong area as it seems to be at first is to seek God for direction

The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.

I believe that if I should die, and you were to walk near my grave, from the very depths of the earth I would hear your footsteps.

Everyone of my generation who preached free love is responsible for AIDS.

Go in and get us a shrunken head!

Vegetarians have wicked, shifty eyes, and laugh in a cold calculating manner. They pinch little children, steal stamps, drink water, favor beards.

I don't date women my age. There aren't any.

Metaphorically I am made of chairs. It's a metaphor though. That means I am not actually made of the chairs.