The novelist works neither to correct nor to condone$$$ not at all to comfort$$$ but to make what's told alive.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.

If you go home with somebody$$$ and they don't have books$$$ don't fuck 'em!

The single best predictor that a family would go bankrupt was if they had a child.

You seem so clear about who you are. So certain that you are just right as you are$$$ that for all your intelligence and maybe in spite of it$$$ you never seem to need a second opinion.

The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever$$$ almost made me die.

I don't go to church on Sunday<br>don't get on my knees to pray<br>or memorize the books of the Bible<br>I got my own special way.

Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it$$$ and I think it can often be poisonous.

Being an American means never having to say you're sorry.