An active mind didn't need distractions in its physical environment. It needed a collection of outstanding books and a good lamp. Maybe some cheese and crackers.

Falling into ruin was a bit like falling in love: Both descents stripped you bare and left you as you were at your core. And both endings are equally painful.

V had a passing thought that she used the word "anyway" like an eraser on a crowded chalkboard. She said it whenever she needed to clear off the things she'd just shared to make room for more.

But then, gifts are like beauty, are they not. It is in the eye of the recipient that they find their seat, not in the hand of the giver.

Man, it was a good thing vampires didn't get cancer. Lately he'd been chain-smoking like a felon.

A book unopened alters not the ink on its pages. What is there is there.

Okay, well...how's that water feeling, then?' 'Excuse me?' 'The Nile warm this time of the year?

Your mission statement says Galer Street is based on global "connectitude." (You people don't just think outside the box, you think outside the dictionary!)

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

He's an intimate betrayer. That's what's so troubling. Judas turned in his own teacher.

So let us not worry, and look instead as it has been taught us to do, as the birds of the air and the lilies of the field, keeping complete faith in Our Father's goodness.

Find what brings you joy and go there.

I didn't like anything about myself - my looks, my personality. I was very, very angry.

So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.

I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.

One cannot grow beauty in the soil of hate and pain.

India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart.