Everybody has to feel superior to somebody," she said. "But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.

Some prisons don't allow guitar because the strings can be detached and used as weapons.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.

That isn't writing at all, it's typing.

He’d always been willing to confess his faults, for, by admitting them, it was as if he made them no longer exist.