What none of them knew, of course, was that Carrie White was telekinetic.

True sorrow is as rare as true love.

People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.

They were still all beautiful and there was still enchantment and wonder, but she had crossed a line and now the fairy tale was green with corruption and evil.

the late afternoon sunlight, warm as oil, sweet as childhood ...

Sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. It’s what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutter ball when you’re bowling with the girls in the league. True sorrow is as rare as true love.

The face he showed in Jesus is really his true and single face.

The way I saw it, one of the single greatest advantages of being in a relationship was that you got to eat off the other person's plate.

To have a productive happy life you have to focus on two things: focus on what you want and enjoy what you have.

How beastly the bourgeois is especially the male of the species

The primitive sign of wanting is trying to get.

Because I cannot write my native language and have no native home anymore, and am amazed by that horrible homelessness of all French-Canadian s abroad in America.

Liberals tend to romanticize the past, past leaders' failures.

The golden rule to apply in all such cases is resolutely to refuse to have what millions cannot.

Men always want to look like themselves, just a little bit better.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.