And so sometimes I would think how the devil had conquered God.

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.

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

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.

I was uncomfortable enough. I was very uncomfortable, I may say unhappy.

We should have known much more than our ancestors.But if we learn less, we're much more stupid than them.

Finance is wholly different from the rest the economy.

Educational reforms are like ripe fruit. They rarely travel well.

If you're not Jay-Z, a record leaking isn't going to affect you.

The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.

What it boils down to is that parenting a child with autism is a difficult job; writing about it is far easier.

When my daughter was young, she thought all electronic signs were mine.

By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.