Wow. So what was the vampire like? Pale. Big. Toothy, the trooper answered.
Let my silence grow with noise as pregnant mothers grow with life. Let my silence permeate these walls as sunlight permeates a home. Let the silence rise from unwatered graves and craters left by bomb...
Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the...
My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...
Readers are the glue that binds the books together.
The hurt that troubled children create is never greater than the hurt they feel.
Stand out tall amidst challenges! Dwarf all irrelevant voices.
Those who are crazy enough to think they can change the world usually do.
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
Use your youth to do something useful or unique or ultimate.
The father who has selflessly poured himself into the life of his children may leave no other monument than that of his children. But as for a life well lived, no other monument is necessary.