In the wind, the trees, like agitated lions preparing to roar, shook their great green manes.

I believe in the possibility of miracles but, more to the point, I believe in our need for them.

I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.

I am twenty years old. To a world-wise adult, I am little more than a child. To any child, however, I am old enough to be distrusted, to be excluded forever from the magical community of the short and beardless.

Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.