If you'd bothered to ask me, Clark, if you'd bothered to consult me just once about this so-called fun outing of ours, I could have told you. I hate horses, and horse racing. Always have. But you didn't bother to ask me. You decided what you thought you'd like me to do, and you went ahead and did it. You did what everyone else does. You decided for me.

But just as nature abhors a vacuum -- so does the human heart.

You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.

I frowned at the list. “So… I’ll go back and tell the Traynors that I’m going to get their suicidal quadriplegic son drunk, spend their money on strippers and lap dancers, and then trundle him off to the Disability Olympics—

... if you're going to wear a dress like that you need to wear it with confidence. You need to fill it out mentally as well as physically.

I chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.

It's complicated.' 'So's quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money.