The kitchen of the Big House was always one of my favorite places. Airy and sunny. No modern cabinets or anything like that. Just a room full of windows, set into wise, worn walls.

Truth is worse than soap in the eyes.

You really are a chameleon, aren't you? Fitting in wherever you go."Aren't we all?" she said...

The kitchen door, painted red from the day Naomi moved in, and a geranium, also red, outside on the stoop, gave the whole area a feeling of whimsy.

You'll be just fine, " he said. "Listen to your heart and mind together, that's the trick. Not one or the other, both.

You're a girl on fire. And it seems to me, you been dousing those flames for years. Let yourself burn a little.

There's a great deal of power in pretending.

Pain is like a map, I guess. But I found my shortcut on my "map of the heart." Shortcuts always take longer, don't they?

Too much work, I guess, to figure out each person as a whole instead of parts of this and parts of that.

I'd forgotten so many important things. I'd stolen away my own past. It made me feel like a coward.

Comedy doesn't makes your IQ higher.......Read Science... and don't re-read books for higher IQ!

I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.

The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.

Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.

Band chemistry is a tricky thing. If one guy isn't feeling right with the other guys, everything gets thrown off. When you get the personalities and the chemistry right, that's a grand slam.

It's celebrated in British culture to be eccentric.

Sanity ... is the most profound moral option of our time.

In Massachusetts they [Democratic politicians] steal, in California they feud, and in New York they lie.

Surprise, dickhead, Mama forgot to tell you a few things about me. (Zarek)

Nothing makes a man, or a body of men, as mad as the truth. If there is no truth in it, they laugh it off.