The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future.

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

Each time you happen to me all over again.

Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their innate tendency to have things happen to them.

It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.

..but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.

It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country.

Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self?

She threw back her head with a laugh that made her chins ripple like little waves.

Conservatives cherished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the "new people" whom New York was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to

Ah, no, he did not want May to have that kind of innocence, the innocence that seals the mind against imagination and the heart against experience...

The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea.

Many of the things that grownups have chosen to ignore, the child understands deeply.

I was talking to a friend about Santorum. He said, 'For all my years in the State Department, I know one thing. Terrorists, what they fear most is a guy in a sweater vest.'

I need [Beijing's] trust in order to develop universal suffrage. The more suspicions being expressed, the more difficulty we'll have in moving towards the final destination.

I think when you take off that jacket and they see that ‘I LOVE GRANDMA’ T-shirt, they’re going to rip your heart out.

Taoism shows us how to deal with life and death by realizing everything here is transitory but its substance is eternal.

Most wars, after all, present themselves as humanitarian endeavors to help people.

Seventeen publishers rejected the manuscript, at which time we knew we had something pretty hot.

You can't have any quit in you if you want to be successful.

Kindred objects kindred thoughts inspire, As summer clouds flash forth electric fire.