You named the chicken, Chicken?" She looked embarrassed. "When we decided not to kill it, I got attached.

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs

The Time (T) and Energy (E) we invest in others, people will take it and carry it with them.

I couldn't exactly storm away in anger. I'd just have to close my eyes and shut out the universe.

The beauty of age is we grow, we learn. We have more wisdom. And as much as the youth-glorifying Hollywood would like us to believe, it's nothing. They're wrong.

Killing is easy," said Mo, "Dying is harder.

Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old.

It's so damned humiliating.

And financial problems are exactly the same thing. You're humiliated. You're ashamed. You're embarrassed about telling anyone that you are suffering financial difficulties.

When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.

There is another element that is a part of human happiness — and that is that unless we think of others and do something for them we miss the greatest sources of happiness.