There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.