What doesn't quicken dies. That's an indisputable truth of life.

Funny, how one good cookie could calm the mind and even elevate a troubled soul.

No, if there's any ultimate redemption, it would be because I passed though your life without scarring you, and did not diminish who you are.

When things are baffling they usually don't unbaffle themselves.There's just, you know, a certain amount of baffling stuff that always, like, really baffles you, and I've found that it's best to accept bafflement whenever it comes along, and then move on.

Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid.

I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive.

Like children, dogs want discipline and are most secure when they have rules to live by. The happiest dogs are those with gentle masters who quietly but firmly demand respect.