We either learn to accept or we end up writing letters home with crayons.

We lie best when we lie to ourselves.

Superhero movies and comic books teach a lesson that runs directly counter to the culture-of-violence idea: guns are for bad guys too cowardly to fight like men.

There is no such thing as a happy ending. I never met a single one to equal "Once upon a time.

It's a hard life if you don't weaken.

She had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong. She hurt all the time.

Here I am, ninety years old and ready for the cooling board, using a brand new Macintosh computer, and there you sit, twenty-two and gorgeous, fresh as a new peach, yet scrawling on a yellow legal pad like an old maid in a Victorian romance.