Give a man or woman back his self-respect, and in most cases-not all, but most-you also give back that person's ability to think with at least some clarity.

Listening to it was like having a mud-slimed piece of silk drawn lightly back and forth across her face.

Put an egg in your shoe and beat it, make like a tree and leave, imitate an amoeba and split.

"Am I weird?" "Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird."

Human Nature Baby, grab it and growl.

I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.

I hold to no God," Roland said. "I hold to the Tower, and won't pray to that.