My friends are always conscious of what people think of them. As though life is something that has an audience.

He was already fading. I knew that it wouldn't be long until he was just a vague image, however much I tried to cling onto his memory.

The whole fairground with all its memories would soon be smashed into the dust.

He was one of those people who completely changes when they smile. Like the sun had come out.

Just for a moment, amid all the bad stuff, this was a happy place again.

The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.

Maybe we could all take care of each other, I dreamed.

Move forward doesn´t mean avoiding the pain, but look towards a new day in spite of the rain.

Grief, we know where we've been. We know where we want to be.

She wondered if it counted as being good if you did the good thing for purely selfish reasons. Probably not, but who cared. What was important was what you did, not how you felt.

He was still frowning at the cake, looking at it as if he expected it to sprout dozens of legs and begin scuttling toward him, thin-lipped, teeth bared.

You become a star not because of your title; you become a star because you are adding star value to the company

You won't see me taking it easy on the Cowboys because I'm from Texas, you won't see me cheering for the Cowboys because I'm from Texas. I'll be a Redskin, through and through.

When I start writing novels, I go into them with a spirit of inquiry, rather than to substantiate prejudices I had in the beginning. If you don't do that, you can't write good characters.

No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.