So what if I'm ninety-three? So what if I'm ancient and cranky and my body's a wreck? If they're willing to accept me and my guilty conscience, why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus?

When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It's fate.

Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important.

I stare at her for a long moment. I want to kiss her. I want to kiss her more than I've ever wanted anything in my life.

I look after those who look after me." He smacks his lips, stares at me, and adds, "I also look after those who don't." - Sara Gruen (Water for Elephants)

Life is the most spectacular show on earth.

The only thing that makes me crazier than writing is not writing.

When will people learn that just because you can make something doesn’t mean you should?

When I first submerged my feet into frigid water, they hurt so badly I yanked them out again. I persisted, dunking them for longer and longer periods, until the cold finally blistered.

I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.

Don't want to get tipsy and break a hip.

Reading is an activity of the imagination, and the imagination in question is not the writer's alone.

Nothing was simple, certainly not simplification.

Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.

If you guys are going to be throwing beer bottles at us, at least make sure they're full.

We take a dash of sexiness, a dash of spice, and blend it in with awesomeness and glory. Then we dance.

As a philosopher, I'm not obliged to explore every unknown wilderness.

Art is no longer anything more than a kind of meta-language for banality.

Milk is about helping guys feel good about their skin and relaxed about taking care of it.

If we get public education right, everything else will follow. But if we get it wrong, not much else will matter.

Who would you want to be giving you advice? Somebody who doesn't have any money?