But I was afraid of the questions (much more than the accusations) you might both put to me.

And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.

He seemed unaware of the messiness of the arrangement.

I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.

I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.

An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.

She was not one for emptying her face of expression.

He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.'s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.

You don't know how to talk to people you don't like. Don't love, really. You can't live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.

I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the peck.

If you think rightly, every problem is financial problem or eventually becomes one.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

Reality is apparent when one ceases to compare.

The balance of probabilities, therefore, comes out strongly against the existence of a god.

You might be a redneck if an expired license plate means another decoration for your living room wall.

I have always enjoyed being a part of his life. I've always loved him, and he's always loved me.

He will have true glory who despises it.

The Greatest evils inflicted by man over the face of the Earth are wrought not by the self-seekers, the pleasure lovers, or the merely amoral, but by the fervent devotees of ethical principles.

Run towards that very thing that you fear, because there's amazing blessings on the other side.

You can always make a lot of people love one another so long as there are a smaller number outside the group for them to kick.