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I could use some help with an FTA. What's your problem? He's old, and I'll look like a loser if I shoot him.
You're going to find this hard to believe, but cops aren't required to carry emergency condoms." Joe Morelli
Opportunities will often come at the unlikeliest of times. Sometimes they're because of instant connections.
How in the world was I alone? Because I wanted to be. That's all I can say. It's all that makes sense to me.
I sat. And I thought. And the more I thought, connecting the events in my life, the more my heart collapsed.
Children say they are unhappy in every language they have. They say it in silence, and they say it in riots.
Except in these latter-day songs, [Bob] Dylan is a grizzled old prophet who's already been to hell and back.
What God arranges for us to experience at each moment is the best and holiest thing that could happen to us.
Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position.
I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.
I'm always nervous about going home, just as I am nervous about rereading books that have meant a lot to me.
The most prosaic of us betray a belief in the inward life every time we talk about 'my body' rather than 'I.
Things usually work out in the end." "What if they don't?" "That just means you haven't come to the end yet.
My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books.
Why are some people born with a fire in the belly, while others need something to get their pilot light lit?
She's got a big belt around her hips. It has a shiny buckle with PRADA on it, which is Italian for insecure.
We stood there, looking at each other, saying nothing. But it was the kind of nothing that meant everything.
I love surprises! That's what is great about reading. When you open a book, you never know what you'll find.
Letter from Mr. B: Why does a back scratch feel better coming from somebody else than if you do it yourself?
I don't go to things because I want to see violence, I go to things because I want to see them handled well.
Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.
Will we have bodyguards?" "We're not quite set up for that. But with all these mothers, you don't need them.
Speciesism: A failure, in attitude or practice, to accord any nonhuman being equal consideration and respect
The corporation, like the psychopathic personality it resembles, is programmed to exploit others for profit.
Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Every man bears something within him that, if it were publicly announced, would excite feelings of aversion.
Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.
The written word has this advantage, that it lasts and can await the time when it is allowed to take effect.
No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly; but of what is wrong one is always conscious.
I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.
As your faith is, such your hope will be. Hope is never ill when faith is well, nor strong if faith be weak.
My editor, Robin Robertson, is one of this country's finest poets, so I listen to him when he offers advice.
I love that phrase that parents say to their children when they cry: 'I'll give you something to cry about.'
I feel uncomfortable when I think about my father listening to my records, because I don't want to hurt him.
We are seeing the bitterness of elites who wish to lead, confronted by multitudes who do not wish to follow.
I usually don't write at night, but there are times where I wake up at 3 in the morning and write all night.
I usually write in my underwear, with a space heater running full blast, and three dogs sleeping at me feet.
In many of the high schools in the South Bronx, more children will end up in prison than will go to college.
I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
Marriage is like a chess match is initiated and the board expands over time until it takes up all of a life.
There's something really satisfying if you've created a bunch of characters that have withstood 25 episodes.
My father gave me free run of his library. When I think of my boyhood, I think in terms of the books I read.
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.
By the way, the secret of speaking French is confidence. Whether you are right or wrong, you don't hesitate.
...words are the gateway to reality, the means by which we engage with the objective truth beyond ourselves.
I didn't approve of murder on general principles. Not even of people who seemed to go around begging for it.
Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have.
All bad things are exaggerated in the middle of the night. When you lie awake, you only think of bad things.