"No. I believe in free will. I think we make our own decisions and carry out our own actions. And our actions have consequences. The world is what we make it. But I think sometime we can ask God to help us and He will. Sometime I think He looks down and say, 'Wow, look what those idiots are up to now. i guess I better help them along a little'."
— Michael Grant(Gone)

"He smelled the garden, the yellow shield of light smote his eyes, and he whispered, "Life is so beautiful."

...

Yet, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important."
— Mario Puzo (The Godfather)

"Tom, don't let anybody kid you. It's all personal, every bit of business. Every piece of shit every man has to eat every day of his life is personal. They call it business. OK. But it's personal as hell. You know where I learned that from? The Don. My old man. The Godfather. If a bolt of lightning hit a friend of his the old man would take it personal. He took my going into the Marines personal. That's what makes him great. The Great Don. He takes everything personal Like God. He knows every feather that falls from the tail of a sparrow or however the hell it goes? Right? And you know something? Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult."
— Mario Puzo (The Godfather)

"Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting."
— Michael Ondaatje (In the Skin of a Lion)

""He's going to the hair doctor. The man's going bald." You hadn't noticed that whole underdeveloped region right up in here?"
"Oh, you're one to talk, Slick."
"Nah. See, when a black man goes bald, he still looks good. Look at Michael Jordan, George Foreman, Samuel L. Jackson, Classy-lookin' brothers, Who you got? Kojak?""
— Alex Kendrick

""No, that's not possible," Michael said. "Killed, yes; jail, no.""
— Mario Puzo (The Godfather)

"She will be loved"
— One Tree Hill

"My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.
"
— Michael Jordan

"One truth doesn't refute another. Truth doesn't lie in the object, but in how we see it."
— Michael J. Sullivan Nyphron Rising

"Just like people with faith, they don't want to die, Michael Jackson never wanted to grow up."
— Unkown Author

"Books aren’t written—they’re rewritten. Including your own. It’s one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn’t quite done it. "
— Michael Crichton

"All your life people will tell you things. And most of the time, probably 95% of the time, what they'll tell you is wrong.""
— Michael Crichton (The Lost World)

"I used to be a Catholic, and when I first started police work, I worried about that. I saw a lot of people dead or dying for no apparent reason . . . not people I killed, just people. Little kids who'd drowned, people dying in auto accidents and with heart attacks and strokes. I saw a lineman burn to death, up on a pole, little bits and pieces, and nobody could help . . . . I watched them go, screaming and crying and sometimes just lying there with their tongues stuck out, heaving, with all the screaming and hollering from friends and relatives . . . and I never saw anyone looking beyond. I think, Michael, I think they just blink out. That's all. I think they go where the words on a computer screen go, when you turn it off. One minute they exist, maybe they're even profound, maybe the result of a great deal of work. The next . . . . Whiff. Gone."
— John Sandford (Eyes Of Prey)

"Ernest Ransom: These are not the best if times...as your editorials remind us
A.A. Hayes : Why not get a Democrat back in there?
Ernest Ransom: These are not the worst of times eithers

Dingley Falls"
— Michael Malone

"We look high and low for God, but somehow He's not there. So we blame Him and tell ourselves that He must have forgotten us. Or else we decide that He left us long ago, if He was ever around."
"How strange," the little fish said, "to miss what is everywhere."
"Very strange," the old whale agreed. "Doesn't it remind you of fish who say they're thirsty?"
— Michael Jackson (Moonwalk)