The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.

The afternoon had made them tranquil for a while, as if to give them a deep memory for the long parting the next day promised.

You've got an awfully kissable mouth.

I hope you live a life you're proud of...

I’m thirty,” I said. “I’m five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor

There has never been an American tragedy. There have only been great failures.

I just couldn't make the grade as a hack-that, like everything else, requires a certain practiced excellence.