It was my dream that screwed up, the stupid hearthside idea that it would be wonderful to follow one great red line across America instead of trying various roads and routes.

I visualized myself at Norma's house, stretched out on her couch, my eyes closed, and she at the piano playing a powerful movement from some Symphony in D major by Beethoven, by Brahms, by Sibelius,...

Cowards are nice, they're interesting, they're gentle, they wouldn't think of shooting down people in a parade from a tower. They want to live, so they can see their kids. They're very brave.

When your words are futile, you're better off keeping them to yourself

The only things needed in life are security, knowledge, and a lot of audacity.

Eating together is an occasion that humans have made into a peacemaking ritual;

Mimicry reassures the weak, and the envious fool takes the risk as often as the visionary who mocks the error and leaves the man alone.

Travel is much more rewarding when it ceases to be about reaching a destination and becomes indistinguishable from living our life.

He believed that "a day will come when the sexual relations will be regulated in every case by the private will of the parties. The public sentiment, then, or law, … will declare the entire freedom...

One day God felt he ought to give his workshop a spring - clean…. It was amazing what ragged bits and pieces came out from under his workbench as he swept. Beginnings of creatures, bits that looked...

Words are immortal - Elinor

Didn't books say that too: that there is always a price to pay for happiness?

It was a spring day, one of those that bring hope: full of gentle breezes and delicate aromas of heated earth.

By the time we hit the streets they were silent and closed in on us, and they had assumed the Nonchalant Look, an expression that said, I am not a nurse escorting six lunatics to the ice cream parlor....

Once you've posed that question, it won't go away. I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't.

Emptiness and boredom: what an understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair, and depression.

from arrogance came apathy, from apathy came ignorance, from ignorance came hatred, and from hatred, well…nothing good ever came from hatred.

How you been, Bernie? Royce greeted him. Going for a walk? Actually, I was about to find a place to relieve myself. Good, I'll go with you. Go with me? he asked nervously. I've been known to help...

"They'll probably gang up on you this time." "Lovely! Any advice?" "Pray." "Which god?" "All of them."

My name is Hadrian Blackwater.

"You can't kill Myron, Royce," Hadrian said, rapidly pulling the monk away as if he had found a child playing with a wild bear. "It would be like killing a puppy."

The Borgia bastard could never be the social equal of a legitimate Medici.

Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you.

And when Hugh would grow progressively Gandhi on me, I'd remind him that these were pests - - - disease carriers who feasted upon the dead and then came indoors to dance upon our silverware.

You're trying to convince me? The one who has a second apartment two blocks from her first apartment just so she can get away from her rabbit for a couple of hours a day?

You cannot reason someone into believing something they haven't reasoned about themselves.

The person who clears the way is the one who ultimately controls its direction, just as the canvas shapes the painting.

Hope is not a strategy. Luck is not a factor. Fear is not an option.

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From Japan to Monaco, from globetrotting single mothers to multimillionaire racecar drivers, the basic rules of successful NR are surprisingly uniform and predictably divergent from what the rest of...