Things happen, and nothing is for sure, but you just have to keep going, believing that one day, you'll find something that is.
In his early days at University, he'd been too green to realize winning debates, even private ones, would lose him friends.
One of the greatest acts of service you can do is to find someone who is secretly lonely and be a friend to them, if only for a day.
The day had come when he needed Cassy, and Cassy alone. No one, and nothing else, would satisfy him.
Self-pitying, self-righteous, self-important, all the selfs except self-confident, the quality that she always needed the most.
A moment passed, perhaps half a second when their faces said what they felt, and then Emma was smiling, laughing, her arms around his neck.
Who's he seeing now then?" "No idea. They're like funfair goldfish; no point giving them names, they never last that long.
We made love like two trees on a breezeless day. Neither one of us moved for hours.
To watch. To wait. To wonder at a world in chaos,' the girl said. 'And hope one day you fools might learn.
It is no loss to mankind when one writer decides to call it a day. When a tree falls in the forest, who cares but the monkeys?
One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the same day as we do ourselves.
I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
The burning ambition of my life was to marry her one day. The consuming worry of my life was to whether she would agree.
The superstitious one will never walk upon a grave. It's said that its sinful in the day and terrible bad luck in the dark.
On every birthday, I ask my wife, 'What would you like this year?' and her instant reply is, 'Diamonds! Diamonds! Diamonds!' I'm always living in hope that one day she'll say she just wants me!
These days, I like to think of sentences as workers. Only one of their jobs is to look and sound good. Sentences are the carriers of plot. They're the conjurers of images, the conveyors of tone and meaning and voice. The best sentences surprise us.
Consistency and acceleration are both key to sustaining success. One-day-wonder persons who slouch back to mediocrity will soon be forgotten.
The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.
I want to be back on Broadway one day. That's a dream of mine. There's nothing like live theater, and I think it's so important for me to be able to be on stage with an audience that responds.
The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.
The average American teenager sends or receives 75 text messages a day, though one girl in Sacramento managed to handle an average of 10,000 every 24 hours for a month.
