Memory is the basis of every journey.

I'm not making an enemy; I'm keepin' one.

Research can only present data about the past. No one seriously believes that people's answers to hypothetical questions about the future accurately represent their future behaviour; they merely represent a current attitude, which may or may not be translated into future behaviour.

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

Bad writing is more than a matter of (expletive deleted) syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street.

It's hard to make strangers care about the good things in your life.

The sun was a molten coin burning a circle in the low-hanging overcast, surrounded by a fairy-ring of moisture.