Fools are the only folk on the earth who can absolutely count on getting what they deserve.

I think that's what people most always do with the stuff they can't make out - just forget it.

Time was a face on the water, and like the great river before them, it did nothing but flow.

Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.

When you're five and you hurt, you make a big noise in the world. At ten you whimper. But by the time you make fifteen you begin to eat the poisoned apples that grow on your own inner tree of pain.

Not every book has to be loaded with symbolism, irony, or musical language, but it seems to me that every book-at least every one worth reading-is about something.

He did it (listened) as the world's most charming and magnetic people do, always asking the right question at the right time, never fidgeting or taking his eyes from the speaker's face, making the other guy feel like the most knowledgeable, brilliant, and intellectually savvy person on the planet.