Limp finally spoke. “Do you think you could kill a person and not get all crazy about it?

I believe a family just isn’t complete without skeletons. My dearest momma clean bit off my daddy’s nose right around the time they divorced.

Kids never jumped head first from the top ledge. Never. It seemed forever beforeStoney came back to the surface. Most of the white bubbles had already disappeared.

Grandpa said that we could solve a lot of the world’s problems if we considered cats and dogs edible. Like the neighbor’s dog who goes to the bathroom in his flower garden. And know what else?

The two smallest boys were cut down first, bodies bounding in different directions as they were shot from opposite sides of the field, like pinballs caught in a tight corner.

I saw my real gods . . the gods of most men. Food, drink, and security in conformity.

Joy is so deeply rooted in our souls that it is not tossed about by the waves of circumstance.

Why is it so? Why is it that our sad mind feels relaxed when we see others facing more than us and not feel happy when we see those same getting more than us? Why is it so?

All good Literature rests primarily on insight.

Blood is a powerful thing

Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor.

Truth is the ground of science, the centre wherein all things repose, and is the type of eternity.

I can't advise any of the young ones, because I don't know what their background was, but I would suggest that anyone who wants to be famous more than anything - there's a problem.

I don't mind about the boos from the audience.

If you had a European prime minister who experienced what we've experienced it would be expected that he would retire or resign.