Life

Destiny is variable, not fixed; it is forever changing depending upon your free will to make choices for what you want your life to be.

Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.

To enjoy the magnificence of life, drink every drop of life and get drunk.

I was so sure this was different, the kind of story they made movies and books about, but in the end it was just a summer to a summer, a dizzying breath of honeysuckle and whiskey and candle smoke, inhaled, held, let go.

Please, Kenzie, Jonah thought. Please, please, please back off from this. His life wasn't much, but it was all he had, this small safe space, walled in by secrets.

A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can't predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before.

When one begins, as I did, to analyze men after a fairly long experience of analyzing women, one receives a most surprising impression of the intensity of this envy of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood, as well as of breasts and of the act of suckling.

In the fluid world of 1919, it was possible to dream of great change, or have nightmares about the collapse of order.

You are a great soul. Live in the light.

I'm going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.

We perceive, as from a great distance, a thousand years filled with dim shapes of men moving blindly, performing strangely, in an unreal shadowy world.

The amazing feeling of being alive beautifully conquers the fear of death.

And I chose life and love and happiness and pain...

I find it funny how people from Boston and New York hate each other because of pro teams. But, like, everyone on the Red Sox is a random millionaire athlete from somewhere else.

I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.

It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.

I am who I am and that's it!

I don't like the life here in New York. There is no greenery. It would make a stone sick.

Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.

Sam Rayburn on LBJ's recuperation from his heart attack: 'It would kill him if he relaxed.