Being a complete juvenile delinquent helped me grow up a little.

I'm just basking in the glory.

Coal mining is tough. Acting is just tedious.

I just love that spirit that makes people do things that they probably shouldn't.

You can tell it's good if you light it and a blue flame comes up; that means it's good moonshine and it won't make you go blind.

I pretty much operate on adrenaline and ignorance.

You were about five feet short of a ten feet jump?

I'm so uncoordinated, I can't really do that much, so my specialty is standing in one spot or holding on to something, like an exploding rocket or a jetski.

I don't remember the first stunt I ever did.

Doctors have told me I have a high pain threshold, but I can only know what I feel. I think I'm good at minimising the pain and being indifferent to it.

I'm lucky enough to be with someone, and I am happy.

In less than a year, the Bush administration will strut out of office, leaving the country in roughly the same condition a toddler leaves a diaper.

What was it about this infuriating woman that reduced him to a twelve-year-old at the pool?

I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.

Love is not a feeling, but an action.

Jason's favorite person in the entire universe was Jason Stackhouse.

Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.

Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.

Imbuing fiction with a life that extends beyond the last word is in some ways the goal: the ending that goes beyond the ending in the reader's mind, so invested are they in the story.

The creative thinker must stand sufficiently detached from his work.

At the rate America is decaying morally, we shall have to change our national symbol from an eagle to a vulture.