They say that secrets live at the bottom of a wine bottle. Mama had made it there the night before, slow glass by slow glass, but she'd never spoken a word.

Everything in the world was about creativity: belief and creation. Storytelling was the essence of both.

We are all fools blessed with the knowledge that certain events will come to pass no matter what path we take to get there. The wise ones follow their angels while they may.

If the bird was made, it chose to be made. It's here because it chooses to be with you.

They know their crime, " she said. "They know their shame.

He was furious with himself for having lived these last days on a wish. On a lie. A kiss does not make the future. Love alone does not make a life.

Her heart was an invalid convinced that it would not survive many more sunsets.

Resist much, obey little.

Success breeds success.

In the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation.

The laws of Congress and the laws of physics have grown increasingly divergent, and the laws of physics are not likely to yield.

All middle-class novels are about the trials of three, all upper-class novels about mass fornication, all revolutionary novels about a bad man turned good by a tractor.

President Putin and President Trump-they both insist on their priority as national interest.

Of all things that can happen to us, triumph is the most difficult to endure when we are alone. Deprived of witnesses, it shrinks at once.

According to a new survey, 90% of men say their lover is also their best friend. Which is really kind of disturbing when you consider man's best friend is his dog.

Basically, we are witnessing the twilight of democracy.

A man who overindulges lives in a dream. He becomes conceited. He thinks the whole world revolves around him; and it usually does.