Little by little, writers develop their own styles, each as unique as a fingerprint.

I think that friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds.

Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight.

God doesn't bribe, child. He just makes a sign and lets people take it as they will.

The terror, which would not end for another 28 years-if it ever did end-began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain.

Might as well try to drink the ocean with a spoon as argue with a lover.

The devil's voice is sweet to hear.