Adulthood is accretive by nature, a thing which arrives in ragged stages and uneven overlaps.

Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't.

Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two.

Time heals all wounds.

Good books are for consideration after, too.

Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.

Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity

A change is as good as a rest.

What you don’t know, you can’t tell. Or made to tell.

And this wasn’t lying, not really. It was leaving out.

Was there even such a thing as normall? People had terrible things behing their faces sometimes. He knew that now.

Oh, Alan Ryves, " she said. "You're such a fantastic liar. You are the smoothest con man of them all.

If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.

Jimmy Dickens was the essence of country music and the heart of the Grand Ole Opry.

I love reform better than its modes.

We need do no more than repeat: only under communism does the individual become himself and lead his own life.

It takes courage to look like an idiot possibly and fall and fail but that's what it takes to learn to succeed so you have to be willing to practice or rehearse to work your risk muscle.

Scientists study physical things, then describe them; engineers describe physical things, then build them.

Failure is the seed of success

Change is often rejuvenating, invigoration, fun ... and necessary.

I'm pretty much a realist. There's a certain age you get to when you're not really going to be shown anymore.