Life

He was agitated for some reason that he could not name. (page 35).

But, if I dare say it, it wasn't until I had helped kill a man that I realized how elusive and complex an act a murder can actually be, and not necessarily attributable to one dramatic motive.

My entire life, I saw myself as the beautiful damsel or the graceful maiden. I was the princess searching for her knight. But with my newfound abilities, I finally discovered that, after all this time, I was the powerful witch.

I know the struggles. I know the pain. I know the life because I live it too.

After all, I was dressed in linen and so retained a certain capacity for nonchalance.

Starting your day with anger is like locking yourself in jail. The outside world is enjoying life, while you’re locked in your own frustration.

But I want people to understand that poker's not all glamorous, it's not all being on TV and making tons of money. It's a hard life. It's a lot of travel. It's a lot of weird hours.

There is no such thing as a fair fight.

The good and bad things are what form us as people... Change makes us grow.

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

The things that frighten us most are those that remind us of our fragile existence.

My hands are dying.

We are so caught up with the affairs of this life we give little attention to eternity.

You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you’re changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you’ll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you’ll be dead.

Things are happening out there. Don’t waste your life in wishful thinking. Get out of your cocoon and go make a name for yourself. Life is too short to be wasted in oblivion.

In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine.

Mice: What is the best early training for a writer?Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.

Precarious, life is. A flying leap. A sweep of hand. A star flung across the night. A lucky catch in this whirling juggling circus act.From Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars.

So strange that David Drucker of all people was the only one who said the exact right thing: Your dad shouldn't have died. That's really unfair.

I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.