Wide is the gate and broad is the path that leads to destruction and many go that way

Watching him with one eye, she wondered if men ever figured out that they were more appealing when they were pursuing their own work than when they were pursuing a woman.

His greatest satisfaction as a priest was to grant absolution, to help people forgive themselves for not being perfect, make amends, and get on with life.

And she laughed, a full octave, descending from high C like chimes.

The poor you will always have with you, ' Jesus said. A warning, Emilio wondered, or an indictment?

Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.

You're going to die. That's going to happen. What matters is what you do with your time before you get flushed out.

At the (record company) meeting Paul just kept mithering on about what we were going to do, so in the end I just said, 'I think you're daft. I want a divorce.'

I don't believe in predestination - except for genetic predilections.

Those who boast are not respected.

When you feel like tellin a feller to go to the devil - tell him to go to Chicago - it'll anser every purpose, and is perhaps, a leetle more expensive.

Football, wherein is nothing but beastly fury and extreme violence, whereoth proceedeth hurt, and consequently rancour and malice do remain with them that be wounded.

The darker the character, the more interesting.

Human vision is endowed with the greatest Reality, since it comes to us directly from the contemplation of the Universe.

To Armenians, half Armenians, quarter Armenians, and one-eight Armenians. Sixteen and thirty-second Armenians, and other winners, are likelier to be happy with a useful book