Death is impatient and thoughtless. It barges into your room when you are right in the middle of something, and it doesn't bother to wipe its boots.

Plans are one thing and fate another. When they coincide, success results. Yet success mustn't be considered the absolute. It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate resposne to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure.

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

America is a nation of 270 million people: 100 million of them are gangsters, another 100 million are hustlers, 50 million are complete lunatics, and every single one of us is secretly in show business. Isn't that fabulous?

You are what you think you eat.

I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe.

Ellen Cherry was from the south and had good manners. She didn´t have any panties on, but she had good manners.