There is only one thing I fear now-love. For I have seen it and I have felt it and I know that it is love, not death, that undoes us.

Because beautiful things never last. Not roses nor snow… And not fireworks, either

Meet me where the sky touches the sea. Wait for me where the world begins.

Why is it that weeks and months and years go by so quickly, all in a blur, but moments last forever?

I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse thing to let a promise break you.

Yeah. Sure. My brother's dead. My mother's insame. Hey, let's have a crepe.

Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.

For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.

History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about the past.

Together in our house, in the firelight, we are the world made small.

We're not punished for our sins, lad. We're punished by them.

You can't love someone just by looking at them. That is lust. Not saying love can't come fast, but it doesn't come first.

Romance novels could teach a man a thing or two, if he was smart enough to open his mind and really see.

I want my kids to see me as Dad, for God's sake, not a television personality.

Seeing through glamour is easy. It's people that are hard.

We've lost a lot of our great stars. I can't hang out with those who aren't here. The phone service to heaven is so bad, you know. But I get to visit with their memories.

It was like I had a curse on me. I couldn't believe how much God was piling on. There was so much death around me.

It's not brave to do something that doesn't scare you.

Desire awakens only to things that are thought possible.

Whether early or late, the Parker novels are all superlative literary entertainments.

My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.