You should know it yourself- a young man is still a boy, and a boy sometimes has the right to be stubborn.

A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.

Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.

If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.

Often I wish this would all be over, Liesel, but then somehow you do something like walk down the basement steps with a snowman in your hands.

I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.

I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skills is their capacity to escalate.

No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment.

It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement.

As always, one of her books was next to her.

If you can't imagine it, think clumsy silence. Think bits and pieces of floating despair. And drowning in a train.

It's true. I doubt. I doubt because I seek the truth. Doubt has served me well.

We have written too many books about love and so few about hunger and poverty

You are trying to do a more difficult thing than record folk songs; you are trying to record life.

Studios are run by those who are way too old or mostly young, who don't think creatively.

Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.

The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.

I think Ronald Reagan was the best President of my lifetime.

The shakes stop if you drink enough, but then so does everything else.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

[Donald] Trump likes celebrities; he is one.