the threat of Jewish competition was taken away, but so were the Jewish customers

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.

I realized during some of the darkest moments of my life, that the most beautiful and precious happiness in the world is the Joy of Giving.

The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.

Peace is a product of both patience and persistence.

When you attack a tyranny you must expect it to fight back.

If you never try anything new, you'll miss many of the world's great disappointments.

And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through.

At times your entire body tingles with ecstasy as you feel the waves of psychic energy that emanate from the master's aura touching your own body.

The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.

Full moons, skunk weed all up in the room; You got the munchies, baby? Ice cold milk and Lorna Doones.

At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.