Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But they grieve for many years.

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.

Had they been dogs they would have sniffed me over and then drawn back. But humans have no such inbred courtesies.

But in my heart, when I said “my king, ” I meant Verity.

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead.

We can't escape history, anymore than we can recapture it." Master Kai

I didn't drink, I told him, with that embarrassed feeling I got whenever I was reminded that I had a body, that I looked like anything at all.

Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.

I get her to school, we do homework at night, and at this age, their social calendars are really quite hectic. She's not driving yet, so I end up chauffeuring her around.

It's not how I view being a salesman. It's how I live being a salesman.

We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time.

Acquaintances are always abundant; friends are always scarce!

I am not taking anything for granted.

Mostly I sit at home in the evenings watching the box and hoping that one day I'll evolve into plankton.

To make a vow for life is to make oneself a slave.