Just because he was pretty didn't mean he couldn't be improved by a smack upside the head with a piece of earnest hickory

If they'd been dogs, they would have all been in the yard eating grass and trying to yak up whatever was making them feel so lousy. Not a bone gnawed, not a ball chased-all tails went unwagged. Oh, life is a fast cat, a short leash, a flea in that place where you just can't scratch.

Love: the sickest of Irony’s sick jokes. The place where logic and order go to die.

They were told what they wanted and they believed it. They can only keep their dream alive by being with others like themselves who will mirror their illusions.

He had risked his freedom and his pride to buy her this, to acknowledge that part of her that everyone else seemed to want to get rid of.

It's very difficult to stay angry when a room full of bald guys in orange robes start giggling. Buddhism.

The value of the work we do is the value we give to it.