Our lives teach us who we are.

Sometimes$$$ people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment.

The process of revision should be constant and endless.

Do not start me on The Da Vinci Code ... a novel so bad that it gives bad novels a bad name.

Peace broke out.

Happy endings must come at the end of something$$$' the Walrus pointed out. 'If they happen in the middle of a story$$$ or an adventure$$$ or the like$$$ all they do is cheer things up for awhile.'

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life$$$ for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.

He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic$$$ so magical worlds could easily be real.

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married$$$ it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.

Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final$$$ certain$$$ closed. Itself is a kind of belief. Doubt.