I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.

Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.

The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.

. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .

Today, tomorrow," she said. "A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before it have gone out.

The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer's sense of what a story wants to be is only vaguely visible through the penumbra of inspiration.

Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.

A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.

[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.

But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can't live with what they've done.

What good's a captive without her captor?

When ready to settle down: women are more interested in where the man is going

Generosity is not always tax deductible.

California officials want to contain a measles outbreak that originated in Disneyland last month. They are in luck because everyone who is exposed to it is still in line at Space Mountain.

I have to admit, if Oprah were a man, I would marry her.

Glad to eat ya', I mean meet ya'" - Digger

I'm less interested in skin than in fascia -- connective tissue.

To feel free like a bird, some things on our minds must be left in the past.

Men enjoy being thought of as hunters, but are generally too lazy to hunt. Women, on the other hand, love to hunt, but would rather nobody knew it.

Love is love. It doesn't matter about sexuality, it's just about how you feel towards somebody else and being good and honest with them.

I'm not going to sit on the porch of the old anchorman's home with a drool cup.