that's because it's from the night, and the night keeps secrets

Delia was an overbearing cake with condescending frosting, and frankly, I was on a diet.

You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again.

A symptom, " Brendan said, as if love were a disease only humans could catch. But there was something like fondness or respect in his voice. "You're both fools.

The purpose of your life is to find your ultimate purpose that makes you happy. Then commit to it wholeheartedly.

Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always. ("The Higgler")

Man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild.

I say at our management conferences that the amount Wal-Mart grows in just one year is the equivalent of Costco's size.

Most critics write critiques which are by the authors they write critiques about. That would not be so bad, but then most authorswrite works which are by the critics who write critiques about them.

I'm not poor, but I'm not rich, either.

‎We only have so many faces in our pockets

That's what I mean by something grips in a canvas. The moment that happens you are then sucked into the whole thing. Like some kind of rhythm.

The calendar and the mirror - they're bastards.

The epithets of imbeciles have never bothered me.