A person can't change all at once.

One of life's great truths is this: when one is about to be struck by a speeding six-hundred pound Coke machine, one need worry about little else.

By tomorrow at this time, I think you're going to have a much better idea of what crazy is. -- Ev Hillman

The writer's original perception of a character or characters may be as erroneous as the reader's.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

never's the word God listens for when he needs a laugh.

There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the concept of telling the truth was utterly alien to them . . . and then there were people who lied because they were waiting for it to be time to tell the truth.