Anyone can run 20 miles. It's the next six that count.

No name-calling truly bites deep unless, in some dark part of us, we believe it. If we are confident enough then it is just noise.

You couldn't be romantic if your life depended on it." "You know what's lucky? Most bad guys don't ask you to be romantic on command, so that probably won't matter.

I obeyed, but my crime was that I did not look obedient.

I confess... if I typo a Facebook post I will edit it. I know it's only Facebook but it's an editing sickness.

You see, Max, the problem is not that the mouse is in the maze, but that the maze is in the mouse.

Your name?” I repeated, hoping it was my imagination that my voice faltered. “Call me Patch. I mean it. Call me

In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential.

I saw my bulky person in the windows of the passing storefronts and wondered, when will that man there find himself to be loved?

Why should I be worried about death?

Anything's hard to find if you go around looking for it with your eyes shut.