If you don't feel the same way about him, if you're just leading him on, you need to tell him that. I've seen too many nice guys get shafted because a girl can't get over some jerk.

We feel most alive when we are closest to death.

All statistics have outliers.

Nobody wants to believe that existence carries on without at least taking a stumble from their departure of this world.

Once a flower is picked it immediately begins to die.

Why did this keep happening? Why her? Perhaps there was some pheromone certain people omitted, perceivable only on a wavelength unique to those individuals who preyed on them.

Now she knew living was just a brief hiatus, a blip really, in the infinite line of nothingness that composed that shadowy realm of the unknown. It could stop at any time.

When we mated I felt your heart stop beating and it was as if the world had stopped turning. It was only while surrounded by death that I realized I had never felt more alive.

We're all hunters in my family, you know. Deer, ducks…damsels.

That's how it started: a series of small hurts and excuses between two people that built up slowly, widening over time to form a vast and yawning divide.

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.

I felt I had to win. It seemed very important. I didn't know why it was important and I kept thinking, why do I think this is so important? And another part of me answered, just because it is.

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

In the self-appraisal of efficacy, there are many sources of information that must be processed and weighed through self-referent thought

Guard against idols -- yes, guard against all idols, of which surely the greatest is oneself.

The American people will not tolerate a clean increase in the debt limit.

You can cross the line but you can also be forgiven.

If Christianity had asserted itself in Germany, six million Jews would have lived.

The president's dream of a worldwide liberal utopia is going to undermine the security of the United States.

There are some key elements to business being a success, and that's a smart visionary and great management behind the people that are going to build it.