A bad thing happened to you kids, Dad said. But it could have been worse.So much worse, Mom said.But because of you kids, Dad said, it wasn't.You did so good, Mom said.Did beautiful, Dad said.

It was that impossible thing: happiness that does not wilt to reveal the thin shoots of some new desire rising from within it.

Every step was a victory. He had to remember that.

I guess you just have to trust your kids, trust that their innate interest in life will win out in the end, don’t you think?

Josh joined her at the window. She let him look. He should know that the world was not all lessons and iguanas and Nintendo. It was also this muddy simple boy tethered like an animal.

Is this the baby?" I said.Ma turned on me again."What do you think it is?" she said. "A midget that can't talk?

The thing about girls? Suzanne said. Is we are more content-driven.

Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it.

Well, there is an attorney-client privilege here that needs to be respected, and it's a privilege that has been found to be worthy of protection by our courts.

Grief alone can teach us what is man.

Historically, it is important to try to understand your adversary in order to figure out how they are thinking, what they will be doing, how they will react.

If you have money and you have fame, but you don't have any confidence in your blackness, then it's all for nothing.

Only a fool makes threats, and only another fool feels threatened.

The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.

The voice is nothing but beaten air.

In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns.