The sun sets in the west (just about everyone knows that), but Sunset Towers faced east. Strange!

I try to say one thing with my work: A book is a wonderful place to be. A book is a package, a gift package, a surprise package-and within the wrappings is a whole new world and beyond.

Smiling without good reason is demeaning.

Your trouble comes from years of wearing the wrong kind of shoes. - Jake Wexler

I remember the will said, 'May God thy gold refine.' That must be from the Bible." "Shakespeare," Turtle said. All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare.

The poor are crazy, the rich just eccentric. - James Shin Hoo

Grace said,"Dr. Wexler was called away on an emergency operation." "An emergency Packers game in Green Bay," Turtle confided to Flora Baumbach.

I remember the will said, 'May God thy gold refine.' That must be from the Bible.""Shakespeare, " Turtle said. All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare.

Grace sat down where the chair wasn't.

Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows.

My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt.

If I propose to myself and myself says yes, I get to have the cake, right? I love me, so I’m thinking 12 tiers.

That’s kind of creepy,

Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion.

Tell me of what plant-birthday a man takes notice, and I shall tell you a good deal about his vocation, his hobbies, his hay fever, and the general level of his ecological education.

The Republican Party, as much as it pains me to say this, should be ashamed of themselves.

No one is happy unless he respects himself.

No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high.

There's only so many movies you can do. I start to get really self-loathing and sick of myself. And I think in order to act, you need to live a little bit to fill yourself with experience.

We must learn to lean upon ourselves; we must learn to plan and execute business enterprises of our own; we must learn to venture our pennies if we would gain dollars.