Amid the pointing and the horror, the clean flame.

A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune

I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.

Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves.

It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels. That had no sister.

Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed.

If all the businesses in town are run like country businesses, You are going to have a country town

Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar...

It's not when you realise that nothing can help you - religion, pride, anything - it's when you realise that you don't need any aid.

When you sweeten your knowledge and experience with your thoughts, it becomes your wisdom.

It is unfair to hold people responsible for our illusions of them.

Work will cure your grief. Serve others.

Very few movies I've done I regret being involved in.

I've learned some of the greatest life lessons from growing up in the skate and punk rock communities.

Only the strong and the hopeful are able to revolt.

If drink sales are falling off, we get the pilots to engineer a bit of turbulence. That usually spikes sales.

Fear sometimes adds wings to the heels, and sometimes nails them to the ground, and fetters them from moving.

I like those fancy raincoats you bought. Really sprung for the big bucks.

The whole body of the arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect.