Media. I think I have heard of her. Isn't she the one who killed her children?

He had kissed her good night that night, and she had tasted like strawberry daiquiris, and he had never wanted to kiss anyone else again.

As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end.

Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead

The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.

I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.

I could be blindfolded and dropped into the deepest ocean and I would know where to find you. I could be buried a hundred miles underground and I would know where you are.

I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.

All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.

Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city.

It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much.

Speak not of peoples and laws andKingdoms, for the whole earth isMy birthplace and all humans areMy brothers.

The Victorian era was perhaps the last point in Western history when magic and science were allowed to coexist.

Boxing has kept me off the streets, stops me smoking and drinking and gives me something to do.

How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?

As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.

I get very weird and defensive about what I'm working on - I wouldn't even tell my secretary what the next page of my novel was about.

If the prime directives were followed a little more accurately here on earth, I mean it sounds somewhat Pollyanna, but I think people would certainly get along better.

The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.

You are a genius beyond description, so start telling yourself that and become aware of who you really are.

Every soldier knows this simple fact: If you don't know your enemy, you will not be able to defeat him.