Death is not a checkmate…it is more like a carnival trick. You cannot win, no matter how you move your Queen.

Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.

Hats have power. Hats can change you into someone else.

We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly.

Where there is a Key, there is yet hope.

That’s what happens to friends, eventually. They leave you. It’s practically what they’re for.

It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.

She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people.

When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can't make it run the other way again.

So most people go around with grimy machinery, when all it would take is a bit of spit and polish to make them paladins once more, bold knights and true.

It is true that novelists are shameless and obey no decent law, and they are not to be trusted on any account, but some Mysteries even they must honor.

Translating from #cat is easy - you just ignore everything, then you decide what you want it to have said, thought, or wanted.

I write down the three measurements which Lou and I agreed are central to knowing if the company is making money: net profit, ROI and cash flow.

This will be Great Mam's last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden.

My mom used to tell me, 'If you read 50 books, I'll get you a motorbike.'

We all must try to be good.

I never met a Cab I didn't like.

The thing I love about off-road racing is the pride in how abusive it is.

All of us in the Senate live in an iron lung-the iron lung of politics, and it is no easy task to emerge from that rarified atmosphere in order to breathe the same fresh air our constituents breathe.

My commitment is to truth not consistency.

I wish I knew. It might make me miss him more clearly. It might have made sad sense.