Beware of logic.

Does childhood really happen? Do we imagine it? Everyone remembers something else....

She was kahuna, creating more life around her than was actually there, heightening the momentousness of each living thing by simply gazing upon it.

They would no longer be time-bound, that they were free to live in the future, the past, in fantasy. She had been a woman preparing to live, not living.

You think knowing things will solve your private little griefs?

Everything breaks down but desire. And because we are old, doctors try to shame that out of us. Young punks! Lose one's youth, and doctors take it as axiomatic that you've lost your mind, your balls.

We love that which we corrupt.

When you hate something for twenty years, you get to know it well.

Got something to do with guilt, ' Toro said. 'Her mother, neh?' 'Guilt. Longing. Got something to do with all of us.

So much easier to give. I detest asking.

Common sense. Mothers are the last riddle, the worst horror, the only consolation.

The salesperson you’d ideally like to be and the salesperson you’d like to encounter as a customer should roughly be the same, shouldn’t they?

There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.

Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them.

Busted is not the ideal band I'd like to be in by any stretch of the imagination.

The most important thing we do is not doing.

Emotion will always win over coolness and cleverness. It's when a scene works emotionally and it's cool and clever, then it's great. That's what you want.

Every man is made to reach out beyond his grasp.

My desire is that my Lord would give me broader and deeper thoughts, to feed myself with wondering at His love.

A shifty, fickle object is woman, always. (Varium et mutabile semper femina.)

Make those important in your life smile today That smile is the most important thing you did today.