Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.

We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.

We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long.

There was a beautiful feeling of calm in my groin, a sense of peace so remarkable it was almost ecstasy——anyone who' suffered bad pain and then recovered will know what I'm talking about.

The person healed has an obligation to then ask why— to meditate on God's will, and the extraordinary lengths to which God has gone to realize His will.

Like some dogs: kick them once and they never trust you again, no matter how nice you are to them.

What our parents tell us when we are small seldom goes ignored, no matter how foolish it may be

That— we seemed to have decided without saying a word— might go a long way toward spoiling something that was special, and beautiful, by virtue of its strangeness and delicacy.

It would not do to tell other people, not just because they wouldn't believe but because they wouldn't care.

He was nothing but a conduit, after all, and there isn't a culvert in the world that remembers the water flowed through it once the rain has stopped.

It was sweet and lovely, that smile, perhaps the more so because it wasn’t complicated by much in the way of thought.

Maybe a relationship is just two idiots who don’t know a damn thing except the fact that they’re willing to figure it out together.

Probably, sooner or later every person founds oneself to be needless.

I can't imagine there has ever been a more gratifying time or place to be alive than America in the 1950s. No country had ever known such prosperity.

It is not, in fact, cookery books that we need half so much as cooks really trained to a knowledge of their duties.

Strategy means making clear-cut choices about how to compete.

Even when I was playing, I never thought much about the individual honors. I wanted to go to the Super Bowl.

farewell' is a monster among words, and never yet sounded kindly in any ear.

The birthers, the fanatics, the people running around in right-wing militia and Aryan support groups, it is unbearable to them that President Barack Obama should exist.

It's my new single - please buy it so we can get Christmas gifts for the kids this year.

The biggest obstacle I've had to overcome is being a woman in a man's world.