He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson

Safer than we are.” I told Franny. “Safer than love.” “let me tell ya kid,” Franny said to me, squeezing my hand. “Everything’s safer than love.

Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.

I have learned that the consequences of our past actions are always interesting; I have learned to view the present with a forward-looking eye.

The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them.

You're nice,' Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. 'And you're my oldest friend.' But they both must have known that you can know someone all your life and never quite be friends.

My life as a writer consists of 1/8 talent and 7/8 discipline.