"Being locked up is one thing, but to have no concept of confinement, to be ignorant of its terms and never understand that struggle is useless - that's what hell must be like."

"On a busy day twenty-two thousand people come to visit Santa, and I was told that it is an elf's lot to remain merry in the face of torment and adversity. I promised to keep that in mind."

"He looked as though his life had not only passed him by but paused along the way to spit in his face."

"Weird doors open. People fall into things."

"The rabbit of Easter. He bring of the chocolate."

"It's safe to assume that by 2085 guns will be sold in vending machines but you won't be able to smoke anywhere in America."

"All I do is lie, and that has made me immune to compliments."

"The Korean man nodded, the way you do when you’re a foreigner and understand that someone has finished a sentence."

"I love things made out of animals. It's just so funny to think of someone saying, "I need a letter opener. I guess I'll have to kill a deer."

"Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it."

"As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts."

"I just looked at the pattern of my life, decided I didn't like it, and changed."

"Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love."

"There is no going back in life, no return, no second chance. I cannot call back the spoken word or the accomplished deed."

"And this then, that I am feeling now, is the hell that comes with love, the hell and the damnation and the agony beyond all enduring, because after the beauty and the loveliness comes the sorrow and the pain."

"We've got a bond in common, you and I. We are both alone in the world."

"...but I should say that kindliness, and sincerity, and if I may say so--modesty--are worth far more to a man, to a husband, than all the wit and beauty in the world."

"I don't mind. I like being alone."

"We all of us have our particular devil who ruses us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end."

"I would have gone too but I wanted to come straight back to you.I kept thinking of you, waiting here, all by yourself, not knowing what was going to happen."

"If you think I'm one of those people who try to be funny at breakfast you're wrong. I'm invariably ill-tempered in the early morning."

"Dead men tell no tales, Mary."

"I held out my arms to him and he came to me like a child."

"She knew that this was happiness, this was living as she had always wished to live."