Luck, you see, brings bitter friends.

It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary

It is the hour of pearl—the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself.

A writer lives in awe of words, for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator.

You got to live before you can afford to die.

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.

Father and son are natural enemies and each is happier and more secure in keeping it that way.