There is absolutely nothing to gain by being too hard on yourself. The most that you could do is to put in your best in all that you do and let God do the rest.

You cannot exalt God and yourself at the same time.

But what little we did know, we brandished wildly like cavemen’s clubs, slinging out stuff we felt tasted good. That was as intricate as ourgame plan ever was—to make food that tasted good.

This is woman, if you try to hurt her, she will kills you, but if you try to satisfied her, she will make you happy!

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire: it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

I modelled my looks on the town tramp.

There is plenty of law at the end of a nightstick.

Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.

Chronic disease like a troublesome relative is something you can learn to manage but never quite escape.

He leans his face close to mine and wraps his fingers around my chin. His hand smells like metal. When was the last time he held a gun, or a knife?