There was no denying it. Boys grabbed him. Their loveliness tore him apart. The world was a wonder after all.

Was there anything quite so painful, so fraught with the possibilities of hurt, as gift giving within a family?

Soon would come the night in which there was no more work – not the work of the hands, nor the work of the mind, nor the work of the heart.

Still, for all that, her life had lacked passion. The demons had never come for her.

Education teaches children to lose interest in what matters most to them.

Just because you pretend the universe doesn't have teeth doesn't mean you won't get eaten in the end.

The body was an organic machine, period, and God was a figment of its fitful imagination.

But men are such strange creatures, really. I think most of them would rather we weren’t around at all, so they could just spend time mooning over each other. Hero worship and all that stuff.

The past is the past. It’s the present we should worry about.

It was a failure of pedagogical nerve, she reminded herself, to give up on a student.

All desire, Tracy had had occasion since to think, is to some degree monstrous.

When you have the opportunity to do something, you have to jump on it.

A writer's style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias...it is the Self escaping into the open.

I'm a big follower and reactor to weather.

There seems to be so much more winter than we need this year.

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.

Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs. Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold, outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul.

We always want to see people strive and see the human spirit triumph against adversity. That's what it's all about because that's what we're doing. We're trying to triumph in our lives.

Being myself didn't work. Being someone else didn't work. Maybe I just wasn't meant to have friends.

If I was a Jewish girl in Hitler's day, I would become his girlfriend. After ten days in bed, he would come to my way of thinking.