We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.
Tief in seinem Inneren war nur Larry und sah heraus. Er duldete nur sich selbst in seinem Herzen
They had become a fixed star in the shifting firmament of the high school's relationships, the acknowledged Romeo and Juliet. And she knew with sudden hatefulness that there was one couple like them i...
The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.
The scariest moment is always just before you start.
Sometimes I think we'd all be better off if the people who mean well would just creep away and die.
People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.
Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.
Not everybody believes in ghosts, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha?She had shaken her head slowly.Men and women who can't get over their past . . . That's what ghosts are.
Living by your wits is always knowing where the wasps are.
It's best to have your tools with you. If you don't, you're apt to find something you didn't expect and get discouraged.
In spite of the problems he was having he was going on with his life. There are thousands who don’t or won’t or can’t and plenty of them aren’t in prison either.
I don't have to listen to rumors about a man when I can judge him for myself.
I believe the first draft of a book — even a long one — should take no more than three months…Any longer and — for me, at least — the story begins to take on an odd foreign feel, like a dispatch from...
For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand.
Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.
Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.
Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.
A life without love is like a tree without fruit.
You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered.