Do I know what people say? Sure. I shrug it off. what else can you do? Stop people from talking? You might as well try to stop the wind from blowing.

Once, during the drinking phase, Wendy had accused him of desiring his own destruction but not possessing the necessary moral fiber to support a full-blown deathwish. So he manufactured ways in which other people could do it, lopping a piece at a time off himself and their family.

What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common.

Want a Coke?” Abra asked. “Sugar solves lots of problems, that’s what I think.

I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.