We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them.

A society manufactures the heroes it requires.

Pain could be killed. Sadness could not, but the drugs did shut its mouth for a time.

New York City in life was much like New York City in death. It was still hard to get a cab, for example.

Mark Spitz didn't ask about Harry. You never asked about the characters that disappeared from a Last Night story. You knew the answer. The plague had a knack for narrative closure.

Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, ifhe is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast.

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

I saw in a blue haze all the world poured flat and pale between the mountains

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un reportedly has had 15 of his top officials executed. So the lesson here is when Kim Jong Un comes to work with a new haircut, you tell him, 'Looking good, Un.'

Especially with girls, people always want to put them in little brackets.

For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchenthan witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.

You get a checklist, and then you just sort of ride herd on it. It's just a few items on a single sheet of paper.

I have learned that everything is an opportunity for spiritual enrichment.

I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.

All that land is filled with people, every one of them different, and the things they do to each other matter.