I would not cry. I do not cry. How bitter do you risk becoming by swallowing too many tears?

Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.

Where there's cake, there's hope. And there's always cake.

Every world has dogs or their equivalent, creatures that thrive on companionship, creatures that are of a high order of intelligence although not the highest and that therefore is simple enough in their wants and needs to remain innocent. The combination of their innocence and their intelligence allows them to serve as a bridge bewtween what is transient and what is eternal, between the finate and the infinate.

The snow did not even whisper its way to earth, but seemed to salt the night with silence.

Time doesn’t, as advertised, heal all wounds. Although the wrenching immediacy of grief eventually passed, the settled sorrow that replaced it might in its own way be even more intense.

Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill somebody. It really doesn't correlate.