You ever read American Tabloid, by James Ellroy?
Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.
Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through you. Always be kinder than necessary.
She made broken look beautifuland strong look invincible.She walked with the Universeon her shoulders and made itlook like a pair of wings.
There is nothing inherently painful about being cheated on.
They say you cannot love two people equally at once, she said. And perhaps for others that is so. But you and Will—you are not like two ordinary people, two people who might have been jealous of each...
Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
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...
It is still cheating, even if nobody comes.
Don't consider my kindness as my weakness, the beast in me is sleeping not dead.