Your faith could have no substance if you did not also accept the reality of its effects in this world.
That fact had been disclosed in a magazine profile. How odd that those who loved the limelight could reveal personal details to curry favor with an interviewer and later forget what they had said.
She had appeared calmer to them.
A lesser mind might try to hide its brilliance behind a mask of stupidity. He chooses, instead, to conceal his true wisdom under a flamboyant pretense of erudition that he is pleased to let people think is the best of him.
Don’t be expectin’ milk and honey, and maybe then you’ll get yourself some.
You and people like you must have developed these places. You must believe you can come and go from them as anonymous as ghosts.” He wanted to argue, persuade, litigate, but no jury waited to be convinced, no judge to rule in his favor. There was just Jane, who had no courtroom role. She was only, possibly, his executioner.
Preserve me from the enemy who has something to gain, and from the friend who has something to lose.
Valiant girls routinely did brave things or else they lost their chance to be above the herd. Thereafter they became sad, timid women, washed-out wallflowers, pitiful drudges condemned to drab lives.
He looks... chewed.
If we live forever, it doesn’t matter so much what happens to us here.
A fat woman was dancing the cha-cha with a cat, and a thunderous chorus was singing the praises of Purina Cat Chow.
The things we regret most in life are the things we don’t do.
Utopias, after all, are sought mostly by great fools, though also by dangerous charlatans, and more death and pain has been brought down on humanity by the pursuit of a perfect world than by all other crime combined.
The angry man shoots too often from the hip and misses his target or hits the wrong one, while a wrathful man proceeds without malice but with a thirst for justice.
A sea of lies can’t wash away a single grain of truth. Truth is what it is.
That’s what life’s all about: little by little, day by day, with excruciating stubbornness, each of us learning how to be less screwed up.
People don’t get attacked by packs of rats in their own homes.
When writing organically, allowing characters their free will, the author could be surprised by who died and who lived in the final act.
Although I am, figuratively speaking, a brother to the moon.
Einstein watched with interest and did not seem even slightly woozy from his half-bottle of San Miguel. “Okay,” Travis said, “I need.