What sad, short lives humans live! Each life a short pamphlet written by an idiot! Tut-tut, and all that.

You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you.

Swear to me swear to me that if it isn't dead you'll all come back.

Kill you all!" The clown was laughing and screaming. "Try to stop me and I'll kill you all! Drive you crazy and then kill you all! You can't stop me!

Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.

Seven, Richie thought. That's the magic number. There has to be seven of us. That's the way it's supposed to be.

Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up

My heart's with you, Bill, no matter how it turns out. My heart is with all of them, and I think that, even if we forget each other, we'll remember in our dreams.

Mrs. Cole was a perfect democrat. She hated all kids equally.

Some stuff has to be done even if there is a risk. That's the first important thing I ever found out I didn't find out from my mother

The most important things are the hardest things to say, because words diminish them...

We love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read

We need to boost each other to get to the top. It is much more effective than stepping on each other.

None preaches better than the ant and she says nothing.

For me, coming to work and laughing is so much more preferable than coming to work and having to cry over a corpse or something. That's a drag.

Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people.

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Charts are a leading indicator of fundamental analysis

Some people are just born stars – you either have it or you haven’t, and I was definitely born one.

Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.

My husband is exceedingly busy. For some time the talk of his going had been slack, but just now again there seems to be a move to get him sent to the front!