She loved them so much that she felt a kind of hollowness on the inner surface of her arms whenever she looked at them- an ache of longing to pull them close and hold them tight against her.

The trouble with dying...is that you don't get to see how everything turns out. You won't know the ending.

One does no question miracles, or complain that they are no constructed perfectly to one's liking.

The stars sparkled above the mist shrouded tents and caravans of the carnival. The night crackled with an odd vibration, as if a veil of peculiarity settled over the company.

The American Dream became America’s god

I would ditch school if my CD was scratched up or I couldn't get batteries. I wasn't trying to get on the bus and not be listening to music.

Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but less by assimilation than by friction.

You have to drop your sales mentality and start working with your prospects as if they've already hired you.

An innate gift and a certain amount of intelligence are important, but what really pays is ordinary experience.

This is [Joe] Biden's unique way. I mean, here's a guy that never makes a gaffe, right?