There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one's.

Of course. You get everything from books.

It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.

To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward.

I care as much as I can, but I don’t spend energy caring about things I cannot resolve.

But so often, before words can rise to the mind to imply the ineffable, the ineffable has effed off.

And that would be my method of locomotion, the Lion concluded. Not diplomas earned, but friendships bungled. Campaigns aborted. Errors in judgment and public humiliations.

Do good though, will you?" She blinked brightly at the green girl. "If not for your parents or your grandmother, then for me?

Don't wish, "said Rain, "don't start. Wishing only...

This is what fun is like, " said Rain, almost to herself.

It’s been a long, rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.

The hotel was guest-friendly with hourly rates and had enough room to swing a cat, if it were a small cat and you wanted to swing it.

Though I'm vegan and advocate that others eat a plant-based diet, I know that many people aren't quite ready to take that step in whole.

I feel lucky to be doing TV right now because I get another chance every day.

Washington still refuses to provide evidence to support the claims in 1990 that a huge Iraqi military build-up on the Saudi border justified war.

Life sure has a sick sense of humor, doesn’t it?

I do not believe that the majority of men in the world would like to hurt women, but they can be very complacent, and that is just as bad.

Love is what makes me live, quite simply. It's the only thing that makes me work. It made me become what I am today.

How beautiful it is to see that young people are 'street preachers,' joyfully bringing Jesus to every street, every town square and every corner of the earth!

I regard everything with irony, including the face I see in the mirror when I wake up in the morning.

Be careful how you live; you will be the only Bible some people ever read.