Unfortunately, little darlings, there is no such thing as a simple love story.The most transitory puppy crush is complex to the extent of lying beyond the far reaches of the brain's understanding.

Words on a page can hypnotize you if the rhythm is right

Not naive,' Conch shell had corrected him. 'He simply has not been taught to fear the things you fear.

For most people, self-awareness and self-pity blossom simultaneously in early adolescence. It's about that time that we start viewing the world as something other than a whoop-de-doo playground, we start to experience personally how threatening it can be, how cruel and unjust. At the very moment when we become, for the first time, both introspective and socially conscientious, we receive the bad news that the world, by and large, doesn't give a rat's ass.

Well, there's one thing to be said for money. It can make you rich.

Danger is to adventure what garlic is to spaghetti sauce. Without it, you just end up with stewed tomatoes.

As any car freak will tell you, the old models are the most beautiful, even if they aren't the most efficient. People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve.