You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

The road and the tale have both been long, would you not say so? The trip has been long and the cost has been high... but no great thing was ever attained easily. A long tale, like a tall Tower, must be built a stone at a time.

Anger is the most useless emotion," Henchick intoned, "destructive to the mind and hurtful to the heart.

A library is a place where you can live a thousand lives. So why are you waiting when you could be living? Visit your library today.

What if there were no grownups? Suppose the whole idea of grownups was an illusion? What if their money was really just playground marbles, their business deals no more than baseball-card trades, their wars only games of guns in the park? What if they were all still snotty-nosed kids inside their suits and dresses? Christ, that couldn't be, could it? It was too horrible to think about.

Until that afternoon in October four years ago, I hadn't known dogs could scream.

As far as where I go when I die, the concept that I am simple going to flick out, like a light bulb, to me is not only spiritually impossible to believe, but logically it is laughable - the idea that we simply die and nothing happens.