It's funny how two people can grow up in the same town, go to the same school, have the same friends, and end up so totally different. Family, or lack of it, counts for more than you'd think.

I would miss Colby, but it wasn't going anywhere. All the more reason why I should.

With love like that, you can't get pick about how it finds you or the details. All that matters is that it's there. Better late than never.

Someone who normally moved so slowly, this time, for once, was long gone.

You think it's all obvious and straightforward, this world. But really, it's all in who is doing the looking.

If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juice middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end.

It's a sad day for American Capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over central park.

A man desire two things: love and happiness.

You endure what is supposedly unbearable, and before you know it, you would have done the impossible by bearing the unbearable.

Often we concentrate on the process and forget the results.

When the inward is good the outward is also inevitably so, for the outward always follows the inward, whether good or evil.

Guess who's running for president? Jeb Bush. Jeb was governor of Florida and he speaks fluent Spanish, which raises the question: What language did his brother speak? What was that?

"What is a human being, then?" "A seed." "A... seed?" "An acorn that is unafraid to destroy itself in growing into a tree."

Begin thinking of death and you are no longer sure of your life. It's a Hebrew proverb.

I try to use short sentences, short paragraphs and short chapters to keep the reader's interest.

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.