Not the brightest gem in the jewelry shop, but you've got to admire his single-minded dedication to drug abuse.

You will not kill my girlfriend today, International Terrorists of Ambiguous Nationality!

Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.

I realized it in waves and we held on to each other crying and I thought, God we must look so lame, but it doesn't matter much when you have just now realized, all the time later, that you are still alive.

...I will continue to underscore that I don't think authorial intent is all that important to a reading experience, and I certainly don't think the job of reading is to divine authorial intent.

And then I screwed up and the Colonel screwed up and Takumi screwed up and she slipped through our fingers.

So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay. -- Robert Frost