Friends come in and out of our lives, like busboys in a restaurant.

My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he had to be in charge of his problems.

The town kept its secrets, and the Marsten House brooded over it like a ruined king.

Want to know the best thing about teaching? Seeing that moment when a kid discovers his or her gift. There's no feeling on earth like it.

Invitation to Dance- It’s a Dance. And sometimes they turn the lights off in this ballroom. But we’ll dance anyway, you and I. Even in the Dark. Especially in the Dark. May I have the pleasure?

We lie best when we lie to ourselves.

and now, all these years later, it seem to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended