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There are many things in this world that a child must not ask about.
It's impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life.
I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.
Change not only was inevitable, but usually brought its own rewards.
I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church.
there were moments in life when violence was necessary to save lives
Dade Kincaid is not afraid of the things of which the world is made.
Ninjas are silly. They are the flower fairies of gong fu and karate.
Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator.
I'm quite gloomy. I just am one of those people, vaguely lugubrious.
Children often have a much stronger concept of morality than adults.
I've made an ass of myself so many times I often wonder if I am one.
You're gambling with something vital. Most writers get smashed egos.
In every death is a celebration; in every ecstasy, one little death.
It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.
If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
I hate the French because they are all slaves and wear wooden shoes.
He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously.
When another writer in another house is not free, no writer is free.
Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
If words can be lethal weapons, I must provide them with an arsenal.
Grief,she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.
Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery.
Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty.
Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground.
The world is your oyster... ...too bad you're allergic to shellfish.
I feel like there's a certain kind of laughter missing in the world.
When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.
The future can always wait so long as the here-and-now is rapturous.
He is my brother. She is my sister. Come what will, they are my kin.
We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them.
When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.
I don't really believe in stories, only in the people who tell them.
That ... is how the world moves: Not like an arrow, but a boomerang.
When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical.
Those who share my heroes are, in the deepest sense, of my own kind.
There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds.
Companies that are terrifying to a writer are companies like Amazon.
Love isn’t a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts.
When I write a novel I start each morning by reading for 20 minutes.
How green was my valley then, and the valley of them that have gone.
Anybody's marriage might benefit from an occasional embargo on talk.
Rainbow drops - suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
There's nothing more interesting than the details of someone's life.
The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.
Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner.
To be honest...here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude...
Strange indeed is the attraction of the forest for the minds of men.
The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.