The police have asked for my help. There's been a murder.""A murder! Oh, my. Let me just change my shoes, " Evie said excitedly. "It won't be a minute.

There is no greater power on this earth than story.

People always fear what they don't understand, Evangeline. History proves that.

Naughty John, Naughty John, does his work with his apron on. Cuts your throat and takes your bones, sells 'em off for a coupla stones.

Careful there, Poet. I might start to believe you.

Memphis found his smile. 'You know me, sir. I don't wear worry.

. . . chasing after words like trying to grab the tails of comets.

Beliefs converge and become something new all the time.

Could I have a Sloe Gin Fizz, without the gin?""What's the point of that, Miss?" the waiter said."Tomorrow morning, " Mabel said.

Writing takes a lot of patience. It usually takes me a year to write a book. One time, it took me 14 years to write a book, not that I worked on it every day.

There is By my leaning over the precipice Of your presence and your absence in hopeless fusion My finding the secret Of loving you Always for the first time

I quickly realized I had to have my own style and strategy and find my own way.

Let's forget the reunification, let's just shut up and don't talk about that topic for the next 20 years.

I don't feel I'm a diva in any way, but, like, I just can't bring myself to reuse eyelashes. I think it's gross. And so I only use them one time. Is that bad? I feel like it's bad!

I claim to represent all the cultures, for my religion, whatever it may be called, demands the fulfillment of all the cultures.

I wanted to give my first instincts a chance without shooting them down immediately, which I sometimes do.

He bore no grudge against those he had wronged.

True greatness will be achieved through the abundant mind that works selflessly - with mutual respect, for mutual benefit.

Life, it seems, is not meaningless but, rather, so full of meaning that its meaning must be constantly murdered for the sake of cohesion and comprehension. For the sake of the storyline.