Have I ever told you, you look like Monty Clift? he inquired in a deep, seductive voice. Before or after the accident?

Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education.

People loved you in the way they knew how - and often it was not the way you knew. Or needed.

He needed fresh air and sunshine. A walk in the woods and afterward a good book to read by the fire. Yeah, that was the life.

Cops before breakfast.Before coffee even. As if Mondays weren't bad enough.

If there was one life skill everyone on the planet needed, it was the ability to think with critical objectivity

Rachel delivered it like an official pronouncement. Like she was one of the fairies gifting Sleeping Beauty's christening: Beauty. Intelligence. Heterosexual.

To find them all in one package...well, perhaps better not to dwell on his package in my fragile state.

I thought of the words of the Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne. "If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

The only thing worse than opera is someone who hums along with opera.

I don't know if real courage lies in storming barricades or simply not denying the truth.

Our society needs to restablish a culture of swag.

He who neglects to pray alone and in private, however assiduously he frequents public meetings, there gives his prayers to the wind.

Possession of wealth is not the happiness but expression of gratitude for the possession is the happiness.

I cannot tell you how much I owe to the solemn word of my good mother.

We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.

Amazingly, only 15 percent of U.S. adults engage in regular vigorous physical activity, and 60 percent report getting effectively no exercise at all from regular or sustained leisure time activity.

Something is wanting to science until it has been humanised.

It could never be a correct justification that, because the whites oppressed us yesterday when they had power, that the blacks must oppress them today because they have power.

Whether early or late, the Parker novels are all superlative literary entertainments.

It is important for me to feel at home.