“There might have been prettier women in the room but, when she turned those babies on, fluttered her eyelashes, I was hers. It had taken me nearly fifteen years to extinguish their light. Now, when...”

“Things had improved after he was born. We both loved him with such fervor that it was impossible that some wouldnt splash back on us.”

“I have never tried to walk through a mall in the Christmas season dressed like a jolly old elf. You might as well dress up like a pork chop and walk into an alley full of starving dogs.”

“The whole concept of some stranger making his way down our chimney - not that we had one - suggested burglary more readily than generosity. Any Santa who tried it would have gotten a bullet in his ...”

“Im a holiday Christian at best and Id never given much thought to demons. They were an adult version of the boogieman hiding in every kids closet.”

“I’m a holiday Christian at best and I’d never given much thought to demons. They were an adult version of the boogieman hiding in every kid’s closet.”

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of wi...”

“My dear,Find what you love and let it kill you.Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.Let it kill you and let it devour your remains....”

“If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?”

“There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.”

“The formula was simple: E + F + C = M. That is, excitement plus fatigue, plus confusion equals mistakes.”

“Oh. Yes. There would be someone, wouldn't there? Of course there would be a person. Ask at the farmhouse did not mean that you addressed your questions to the front porch. She had not thought it th...”

“Zen is a single stepthe journey of one single step. You can call it the last step or the first step, it doesnt matter. It is the first and it is the last, the alpha and the omega. The whole teachin...”

“Success need more than jumping,You must leap and hop”

“Good literature is a lifeboat! Every time you feel you are sinking, jump on it!”