Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.
Talent is a valued tormentor.
With one exception everybody who has ever been involved with me is still a great friend of mine.
all his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with seven blades, a box of oil paints. Only how, how, could you say something so indefinite, so meaningless as this: God, let me be loved.
You don't run out on people; you run out on yourself.
Nancy Clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that's one definition of a lady.