The bite of existence did not cut into one in Hollywood. . . Life elsewhere was real and slippery and struggled in the arms like a big fish dying in air.
Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite.
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.
Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
I don't do office work at home.
I hate violence, and I didn't plan to write horror; it just poured out of me.
In a Jewish theological seminar there was an hours-long discussion about proofs of the existence of God. After some hours, one rabbi got up and said, "God is so great, he does not even need to exist. "
I'm up in the Senate most Tuesdays when they're in session.