You can't dispute the ridiculous. You can't argue reasonably with evil.

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.

I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?

The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

The evening had turned sweet and blue.

We can no longer create the feeling of an era...of time being particular to one spot in time.

Eli was right. The measure of success isn't what you gain. It's what you pay to get it.

Oh I'm so inadequate. And I love myself!

Every day Catholics prove that you can be a good Catholic and a good Democrat and have a different position from the Church on abortion.

It's always a job when you're the reason they're assembling. If you're just doing shows and you're on a lineup with eight other guys, it's fun, it's great.

Wishing is not acting. But willing is acting.

In the novel, I can change things and simplify, and make events work towards whatever meanings I'm trying to get at more efficiently.

A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.

Stand high long enough and your lightning will come.