Life

Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.

I don't know what happened. Disease? War? Social collapse? Or was it just us? The Dead replacing the Living? I guess it's not so important. Once you've arrived at the end of the world, it hardly matters which route you took.

The cleanest civilization I’ve ever seen…and the number one thing you pack for a wedding is a jar of dirt?

This poor little one-horse town.

Frankie Perino and I were lucky that day. Lucky to be alive-that's what everyone said.

She wanted to get some personal profit out of things, and she rejected as useless all that did not contribute to the immediate desires of her heart, being of a temperament more sentimental than artistic, looking for emotions, not landscapes.

Our life is frittered away by detail...Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let our affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand...Simplify, simplify!

Soon would come the night in which there was no more work – not the work of the hands, nor the work of the mind, nor the work of the heart.

They can't see your painThey can't see your sadness They will smile if you smile to themThey will leave you if you frown to them.

...Just remember, darling, it is pain that changes our lives.

It's true that when you read YA you rarely have to read about middle-aged men having affairs. Personally I consider that a plus.

One of the pleasant duties of America's most famous announcers during the relatively short swing era of the big bands was to host late-night remotes from some of the most famous ballrooms throughout the country.

Your life was a hypothesis. Those who die old are made of the past. Thinking of them, one thinks of what they have done. Thinking of you, one thinks of what you could have become. You were, and you will remain, made up of possibilities.

I've actually stopped tinting my windows because the paparazzi look for trucks and cars with supertinted windows.

Life is a learning process.Learn from your mistakes.The lessons should motivates you to make better decisions.

Women: One of the most mysterious forces on the planet have had a very profound impact on men since millennia, for they are gifted with an alchemical agent - Discontinuity ~ Any one who encounters their presence gets disconnected with their past, a very life changing experience.

A costume party… great… a chance for the bimbos to whore themselves out with no penalty of conscience. I found myself excruciatingly curious as to what she was going as, a sailor? No. A pilot. That would be something.

All I know is, a writer ever walks into Homicide looking to shadow someone, I’m shooting them on-sight.

His head was pounding and his vision skewed in some way and he was vaguely amazed at being alive and not sure that it was worth it.

I am not a human being. I am a human BEING. Just be.