Why do you have a cigarette lighter in your glove compartment?" her husband, Jack, asked her. "I'm bored with knitting. I've taken up arson

He would say her name over and over until it devolved into meaningless sounds - mah REI kuh, mah REI kuh - it became an entry in a dictionary of loneliness.

He was not in the house. He did not come back that night. Days went by, and at last she understood that he would not return at all.

That is what madness is, isn't it? All the wheels fly off the bus and things don't make sense any more. Or rather, they do, but it's not a kind of sense anyone else can understand.

You're my phantom limb, Mouse. I keep looking for you. I forget. I feel stupid, Mouse. Haunt me, find me, come back from wherever you are. Be with me.

When we were that young we invented the world, no one could tell us a thing.

O Stunden in der Kindheit, da hinter den Figuren mehr als nurVergangnes war und vor uns nicht die Zukunft.

I love Humanity but I hate humans

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them make them.

There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.

We did our duty as human beings: helping people in need.

If you dream you've got to dream that it's going to happen. Remember that. If you dream you have to imagine that it will actually happen.

The youth of this country are not behind what is going on. We all know that. If you looked at a [political] map of the United States 25 and under, it's all-revealing. It's a unified map.

Live in the moment. Moments make history.

I think we should just tip the government if it does a good job. Fifteen percent is the standard tip, isn't it?

Flattery, the dangerous nurse of vice.