You loved me as hard as you knew how. I'd give anything to go back and love you better...

Already, though, she understood the difference between being a child and being an adult. The difference is when someone says he can keep the bad things away, a child believes him.

Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.

The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between imagination and resignation. You traded one for the other and lost your way.

Gold don't come off. What's good stays good no matter how much of a beating it takes.

You sure you're all right? You aren't out here pondering dark female thoughts are you?

He believed in his own decency with all his heart. So it was with every true monster, Vic supposed.

Why am I not good at anything?""You're a good dad.""It ain't rocket science."No, Vic thought. It was harder.

To be honest, I think cell phones were invented by the devil.

You are part of nature, and its pulse beats in your veins.

As long as humans feel they are forced to defend their own rights and worth by placing someone beneath them, oppression will not end.

Don’t drown yourself in the pool of lies

Men ought to be a four-letter word! Menn!

Employment... is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered the mother of misery.

When all else fails, take a vacation.

I'm part of the consumer culture. I was part of the baby boom generation. I have a car when I shouldn't, a couple of computers; I can't be anti-consumerist in that sense.

Most of us have enough areas in our lives where we have to meet others' expectations. Let your running be about your own hopes and dreams.

President Obama trusts in the wisdom of government. I put my trust in the ingenuity and creativity and commitment to hard work of the American people.

A wait-and-see policy may mean waiting until it is too late.