The sand in the hour glass isn't meant to stick together. It will flow exactly same today, how it did ten years back. That's how much reliable that stuff is. The stuff that can be consistent.

Speechless and very nearly panting, she fell back against the wall with a thump, knowing that if she lived to be ninety, she would still carry the searing mark of that kiss on her soul."At last," he m...

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.

Ah, Nothing is too late, till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.

This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest.

And, we have no such thing as a budget anymore. Our manager freaks when we show him the bill. We're lavish to the bone, but all our money goes back into the product.

In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

I haf the sownd of more words butt i coud not remember the shaps of the letters.

Who are you? Her eyes snapped open, and her voice held a hysterical edge. Do I even know who you are?He stepped over Walker’s battered corpse and grabbed her by the shoulders, leaned downso that his n...

We are now ready to tackle Dickens. We are now ready to embrace Dickens. We are now ready to bask in Dickens. In our dealings with Jane Austen we had to make a certain effort to join the ladies in the...

War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged.

They thought more before nine a.m. than most people thought all month. I remember once declining cherry pie at dinner, and Rand cocked his head and said, 'Ahh! Iconoclast. Disdains the easy, symbolic...

The weight of the dead was heavier than the pounds of the body.

The sight filled the northern sky; the immensity of it was scarcely conceivable. As if from Heaven itself, great curtains of delicate light hung and trembled. Pale green and rose-pink, and as transpar...

So, have you seen Flood? she asked. Cop? She added cop with a high pop on the p, like it was a punctuation mark, not a profession

Simplicity itself. Skin, debone, demarrow, scarify, melt, render down and destroy. Every adjective that counted, every verb that moved, every metaphor that weighed more than a mosquito--out! Every sim...

Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.

STRAUSS:Have you ever thought about putting those experiences into a book?RICHIE:I did decide to write about what i experienced in climbing to the top. And finally when I got there, I discovered what...