This country would get along much better if people learned how to suffer in silence.

He had kissed her good night that night, and she had tasted like strawberry daiquiris, and he had never wanted to kiss anyone else again.

As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end.

Media. I think I have heard of her. Isn't she the one who killed her children?

Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead

The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.

I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.

I could be blindfolded and dropped into the deepest ocean and I would know where to find you. I could be buried a hundred miles underground and I would know where you are.

I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.

All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.

Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city.

And there he was waiting for the song to end, but it started again, like it's on repeat, maybe he is never meant to be happy, maybe this is the only feeling life has for him.

We have story-makers and we have writers apparently most of the today's writing falls into the first category.

A Bombshell commands attention for her business with a strong culture, consistent branding, and simple, no-to-low cost marketing.

I was all the time tugging and carrying water. But now I have a river that carries me.

But the fact is, no matter how good the teacher, how small the class, how focused on quality education the school may be none of this matters if we ignore the individual needs of our students.

You don't have to do a lot of quantity. It's the quality that counts.

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking, Hmán, as if pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing.

I played lacrosse for a hot second, but I was mainly a swimmer - captain of my swim team.

First, a poem must be magical, then musical as a sea-gull and it must hold fire as well.

I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics. No man can.