We use religion like a trolley-car--we ride on it only while it is going our way.

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

Patience is the analogue of God's serenity.

Some folks never handle the truth without scratching it.

If you sit by the wayside waiting for Success, your knees will be too stiff to follow her when she passes.

Love is a boomerang that returns to the thrower's hand.

The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks.

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

Music is another lady that talks charmingly and says nothing.

Before the Apocalypse, the closest I'd gotten to death was buying steaks at the supermarket.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Eric, what are you doing?" "Snuggling." "Get out of my bed!" -Sookie Stackhouse, Eric Northman

Notoriously insensitive to subtle shifts in mood, children will persist in discussing the color of a recently sighted cement-mixer long after one's own interest in the topic has waned.

I think we look to the military as something that protects our shores.

I like to use big words so people will think I know what I'm talking about.

A lot of adults don't think it's their place to interfere with kids. I interfere all the time.

A good tactic is one your people enjoy.

I've been slagged off completely by the art world and I don't know whether fancy being slagged off by the literary world as well. It's just too much.

Anger makes people stupid.