Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.

A snake will always be a snake, even if you put a chain around its neck and try to make it walk upright.

Inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.

One didn't issue instructions to comets. Grown children did what they had to do, and parents could only grit their teeth and watch and pray for them to get through it.

What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room.

If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert without eating her vegetables.

The requirements of romantic love are difficult to satisfy in the back seat of a Dodge Dart.

Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone.

The man who has no inner life is a slave of his surroundings, as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air.

Greet each man with peace, and leave each man with love. Ask yourself - One more enemy, or one more dove?

Bitter and Frail, young and weak. Smiles are useless, talk is cheap, Give thou venom, fangs like slime, Ugly freak for all of time. An empty gift just from me, Give it now, so mote it be!

When the average American says, “I’m starving, ” it is a prelude to a midnight raid on a well-stocked refrigerator or a sudden trip to the nearest fast food restaurant.

One of these days I'm gonna beat him in the face with the butt of my service revolver until an eyeball pops out. These are the thoughts that keep me happy.

Technology has given us this wonderful opportunity to have low energy costs. We have to seize that, rather than keep debating and discussing and fighting over it.

None of the candidates are ever perfect, ok? Then you have to get them in there and you have to hold them accountable. You have to make noises.

You cannot be effective if those who work for you are not. So building their effectiveness ought to be a priority.

I never started out trying to be an actor. That was not my passion, this was not my thing.

Communication implies communing, having a shared experience with another, not "talking at" or "talking down to" someone.