She gave him such a look... Man oh man, if looks could kill. That one might have totalled a city block.

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have.

The greatness of America is that it produces exuberant geniuses like Louis Armstrong and Fred Astaire and Leonard Bernstein. We are meant to be a jazzy people who talk big and jump on the table and dance; we aren't supposed to be dopey and glum and brood over old injuries.

We all know you can get AIDS from sex, but did you know that you can get sex from aides?

That's why God created marriage, so people wouldn't have to fight with strangers.

Secret of life is to go through something harrowing that doesnt kill you...and to love one woman for the rest of your life.

Adolescence hits boys harder than it does girls. Girls bleed a little and their breasts pop out, big deal, but adolescence lands on a guy with both feet. . . . Your body is engulfed by chemicals of rage and despair, you pound, you shriek, you batter your head against the trees. You come away wounded, feeling that life is unknowable, can never be understood, only endured and sometimes cheated.