Too many words for one book--truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.

I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.

Perhaps a hero is someone who doesn’t register his own vulnerability. Is it courage, then, if you’re too daft to know you’re mortal?

She was not a writer herself but she was a very good reader, passionate and eclectic in her tastes, and my father had great faith in her judgments.

He gave me a small, secretive smile, a smile that said he knew many things but couldn’t share them all at once.

It made me happy that poems are referred to in the present tense even when the poet is in the past tense.

Don’t worry, my friend. I won’t let you die.” I was seventeen and stupid and I believed him.

You will surely be rewarded for every seed of good deed and godliness.

By the end of the date, your intentions should be clear.

What Harry found most unusual about life at Ron’s, however, wasn’t the talking mirror or the clanking ghoul: It was the fact that everybody there seemed to like him.

I believe, in my better moments, that there is a plan and things go not the way we want them to but the way they should.

Humans cannot produce viable offspring with our closest animal cousin: the chimpanzee. We cannot impregnate a chimp. So you know what that means? No condoms.

Predict the inevitable", she said, "and you're bound to be right one day.

Riches ... don't consist in having things, but in not having to do something you don't want to do. ... Riches is being able to thumb your nose.

Truth is orphan without matter and matter is impotent without truth.

The only creature on earth whose natural habitat is a zoo is the zookeeper.

It's odd to see a black person painting his nails in Miami, especially in the hip-hop community.