And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.

I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.

Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.

ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crises with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.

Time, the spaces of light and dark, had long since lost orderliness.

Memory believes before knowing remembers.[Light in August]

It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate.

When it's a matter of not-do, I reckon a man can trust himself for advice. But when it comes to a matter of doing, I reckon a fellow had better listen to all the advice he can get.

It is the man who all his life has been self-convicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.

Everyone is born a millionaire, it is your God-given right to have an abundance of everything, health, money and love.

If you're born with in the wild you run with the wild

Skills can be trained, character is inbred.

Someday we'll find it the rainbow connection, the lovers, the dreamers and me

I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.

Oh, the pleasure of eating my dinner alone!

Farid had brought an invisible guest with him. Fear.

Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking's just the measure.

You must suggest to me reality---you can never show me reality.

I know it may sound silly, but I think my short stories have a life and identity of their own. They crop up in all sorts of places.