If not for bad luck we'd have no luck at all.

True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.

Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.

Friends are family you choose.

To entrust to an editor a story over which you have labored and to which your name and reputation are attached can be like sending your daughter off for an evening with Ted Bundy.

A young city, Miami lacks the history, the roots, and the traditions of other major metropolitan areas. Everybody here is from someplace else.

Everybody seems normal, till you get to know them.

Fear is like water. You need it. And it's good for you, as long as you have the right amount.

Books are like your children. They take nine months to write; the manuscript weighs six pounds and...you send them out into the world and hope that some day they'll send back money.

Love is so fragile and so often fatal. I am amazed when people are brave enough to risk it.

The past is an unsolved mystery and the truth a moving target.

I am but an architectural composer.

Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form.

She did not shut it properly because she knew that it is very silly to shut oneself into a wardrobe, even if it is not a magic one.

Iowa City is okay as Midwestern cities go, but theres no food, no culture, no ocean.

I'm a typical California boy.

I have never sung a whole song on my own before and I am not the best dancer in the world, but I would rather try and fall than not not try at all.

Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest.

We will no longer be oppressed by the fascism called Christianity. We will no longer be oppressed by the mentality of the police state.

I shall never be ashamed to quote a bad author if what he says is good.

It's time to realize that one cannot combat one injustice by invoking and using another injustice