“Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.”

“I stare at her for a long moment. I want to kiss her. I want to kiss her more than I've ever wanted anything in my life.”

“With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.”

“Sometimes when you get olderand I'm not talking about you, I'm talking generally, because everyone ages differentlythings you think on and wish on start to seem real. And then you believe them, and...”

“After sixty-one years together, she simply clutched my hand and exhaled.”

“Don't mind Russ," he says. "He's a good kid underneath all those holes, although it's a wonder he doesn't spring a leak when he drinks”

“I dont know what youre talking about, but any organization that claims you for a member doesnt get to call itself sinister, whether youre left-handed or not. I would be insulted to be offered membe...”

“Are you really left-handed? Mr. Marshall asked.No. Ive just been pretending to use my left hand my entire life because I enjoy never being able to work scissors properly.”

“This was met with a long pause. Are you really left-handed? Mr. Marshall asked.No. Ive just been pretending to use my left hand my entire life because I enjoy never being able to work scissors prop...”

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”