To pick up in a clumsy way is stealing, to steal in a skillful way is to pick up.
Better return half way than lose yourself.
One may go a long way after one is tired.
Take one step to hell and you are already half way there.
Sure, politicians rob from us, the people—but only because it’s in our best interest. If they didn’t rob from us, somebody else would, and this other scoundrel wouldn’t even bother to wrap the theft in an American flag. So really we should re...
The best kind of closed door is the one you can leave unlocked.
Your best mirror is someone more beautiful than you.
Food tastes best when you eat it with your own spoon.
He who wants to barter, usually knows what is best for him.
Even the best mule still saves a kick for his master.
Even the best song becomes tiresome if heard too often.
Provide for the worst; the best can take care of itself.
There are no absolutes, and your way is neither the only way nor the right way.
Barack Obama is way smarter than Bush - so way, way smarter than me. Obama is way more charismatic than me.
Wherever I go, I am Italian. The way I talk, the way I eat, the way femininity is important to me. The way I love Italian food.
Sunbathing Girl: I don't get her face. Laura: Yeah, it's like she fell on it.
When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.
Evan Connell said once that he knew he was finished with a short story when he found himself going through it and taking out commas and then going through the story again and putting the commas back in the same places. I like that way of working on s...
As I mentioned briefly on the phone, the best thing about the Air Chrysalis is that it's not an imitation of anyone. It has absolutely none of the usual new writer's sense of 'I want to be another so-and-so'. the syle, for sure, is rough,and the writ...
I used to want to understand how the world worked. Little things, like heavy stuff goes at the bottom of the laundry bag, or big things, like the best way to get a boy to chase you is to ignore him, or medium things, like if you cut an onion under ru...
As a kid, I was taught that if you opened the Bible in the middle you'd probably land on the book of Psalms. And near the middle is everyone's favorite, the 23rd, there is this line: "You prepare a table before in the presence of my enemies." I don't...
