The proofs that God does not exist are very strong, but in lots of people they are not as strong as the feeling that He does.

Lennie begged, "Le's do it now. Le's get that place now." "Sure right now. I gotta. We gotta.

Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag.

People don't want advice...only corroboration.

A funeral isn't for the dead. You'll simply be a stage set for a kind of festival maybe. And besides, you won't even be there.

Trips to fairly unknown regions should be made twice; once to make mistakes and once to correct them.

She wasn't happy, but then she wasn't unhappy. She wasn't anything. But I don't believe anyone is a nothing. There has to be something inside, if only to keep the skin from collapsing. This vacant eye, listless hand, this damask cheek dusted like a doughnut with plastic powder, had to have a memory or a dream.