Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me the most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
Nothing moves at the Hotel New Hampshire! We're screwed down here-for life!
Never confuse faith, or belief—of any kind—with something even remotely intellectual.
My God, Franny would say later. They would bring their daughter to see a murder, but they wouldn’t even let her hear about an orgasm. Americans sure are strange.
Mr. Merrill was most appealing because he reassured us that doubt was the essence of faith, and not faith’s opposite.
Logging is most dangerous if you’re impatient; saws and axes, peavys and cant dogs—these tools belong in patient hands.
Like the rooftop dogs, they were lost souls—they were running wild, or they drifted around town like ghosts.
Kad vam umre osoba koju volite, a vi to ne očekujete, ne gubite je odjednom. Gubite jedugo, u komadićima - baš kao što prestaje dolaziti pošta s njezinim imenom i njen mirislagano blijedi s jastuka, p...
Just give me the antibiotic, Esperanza said. Of course I’ll be infected again! I’m a prostitute.
It's natural to want someone you love to do what you want, or what you think would be good for them, but you can't interfere with people you love anymore than you're supposed to interfere with people...
It's a no-win argument - that business of what we're born with and what our environment does to us. And it's a boring argument, because it simplifies the mysteries that attend both our birth and our g...
It was not out of love that I wanted to meet my father, but out of the darkest curiosity - to be able to recognize, in myself, what evil I might be capable of.
It was not necessarily what Ketchum might have said about the war in Iraq, or the never-ending mess in the Middle East, that particularly interested Danny or Six-Pack Pam. It was what Ketchum would ha...
It was his first understanding that physical attraction, even sexual desire, was stimulated by more than the perfection of a body, or the beauty of a face.
It was from just a few sentences that a writer learned anything from another writer.
It was as if all the books in her room had been feeding on her, had consumed – not nourished – her.
It was Nurse Caroline who introduced Homer to young Dr. Harlow, who was in the throes of growing out his bangs; a cowlick persisted in making his forehead look meager; a floppy shelf of straw-colored...
It seems to me that people who don’t learn as easily as others suffer from a kind of learning disability—there is something different about the way they comprehend unfamiliar material—but I fail to se...
It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don't expect me to change.
In a living city, I could never have noticed so much. Living cities don't hold still.