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

Good habits are worth being fanatical about.

A personal injustice is stronger motivation than any instinct for philanthropy.

I've always preferred writing in longhand. I've always written first drafts in longhand.

Lilly was not crazy. She left a serious suicide note. 'Sorry,' said the note. 'Just not big enough.

All I say is: Let us leave les folles alone; let's just leave them be. Don't judge them. You are not superior to them - don't put them down.

Owen meany who rarely wasted words and who had the conversation-stopping habit of dropping remarks like coins into a deep pool of water... remarks that sank, like truth, to the bottom of the pool where they would remain untouchable.