Did I read because I was lonely, or was I lonely because I started to read?

I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself.

Didn't you ever notice how it's always people who wish they had somethin' or had done somethin' that hate the hardest?

How easy it is, how dangerously easy it is to hate a man for one's own inadequacies.

If I'm a lousy writer, then an awful lot of people have lousy taste.

Indian summer is like a woman.

If every man, ...ceased to hate and blame every other man for his own failures and shortcomings, we would see the end of every evil in the world, from war to backbiting.

I have seldom, if ever, seen money and gentleness go hand in hand.

There can be neither beauty, nor trust, nor security between a man and a woman if there is not truth.

Dead folks can't hurt you none. It's the ones that are alive, you have to watch out for.

But I was still determined to protect her. It might be the one good thing I would ever do in my life. I wondered if God would even notice.

We shall give up the things of childhood -- gods and demons, planets and suns, guilts and regrets.

He thrust into me as if he were trying to climb into my soul.

Before I came out, I had a lot of anger. For years people would ask, 'How are you doing?' and I'd say, 'Good, fine.' It's show business, and that's what you have to show.

You have to be strong. You have to know how you are, and you have to know who your partner is and you have to know who your friends, who your real friends are.

The pipeline would run from Canada to the Gulf Coast. It'll be the biggest underground structure leading into the U.S. Then people in Mexico said, 'Eh . . . second biggest.'

To be in America illegally is actually a civil offense and not a criminal one.

I have full confidence in the IMF. It is a very strong international institution.

The city, no matter how small, is corrupt and unrepentant, while the sun shines brighter in the country, making people more wholesome.

The people are the foundation of the nation. Our only chance for a lasting peace on earth: the release of the strength of the common man.