Life is a festival only to the wise.
Show me on the doll where Fun is a rock band.
There is one statement I want you to keep after you are finished with this book. It is more of a mantra, really. Nonetheless, let it crawl across your mind any time you feel you have been backed into a corner spiritually. It is very simple: Live your life, no matter what life is. Take that with you. Live your life. No matter what that life is.
Some of the smartest people I know are metal fans.
We are defined by our dignity to rise above debasement. We are certainly better people for doing so.
I am tired of the superficial smiles that adorn the many ghouls among us. I am tired of the righteous indignation that hides beneath those visages that feign our best interest and deign to think we cannot and will not stand for ourselves.
When Paris Hilton can top the bestsellers' lists, we are one more Connect Four move closer to Armageddon.
My father liked me, when I wasna being an idiot. And he loved me, too -- enough to beat the daylights out of me when I was being an idiot. Jamie Fraser
I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.
I have lived for a long time inside a series of coincidences that most people would find implausible in a novel.
But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House.