Every full bottle of alcohol has a message in it, a surprise that one will not discover until one drinks it

This feat I also had no idea how to accomplish, but ignorance had never stopped me from taking action before.

no one asks poor people if they want war.

...nothing is more precious than independence and freedom...

He responded with one of those looks of pity and amusement I was by now so used to getting, the kind that implied not only was my fly undone, but that there was nothing to see even if it was.

give a woman the chance to reject something else besides me

Quoting Nguyen Du - Talent and destiny are apt to feud.

Did we salivate for sadness, or had we only learned to enjoy what we were forced to eat?

Some animals could see in the dark, but it was only humans who deliberately sought out every possible route into the darkness of our own interiors.

While it is better to be loved than hated, it is also far better to be hated than ignored.

cheered by the optimism that one sometimes had at the beginning of strenuous exercise, a kind of helium that filled our lungs and carried us along

Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.

I better be honest about my feelings, even those involving loneliness, jealousy, and fear.

Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillfull, swift, and steady.

I learned that he that will be a hero will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work is sure of his manhood.

Without God, life is everything.

But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation.

How'd you like to gaze at a beer can throughout eternity? It might not be so bad. There'd be nothing to fear.

Big companies are almost always far too slow to actually kill a small competitor.

I'd rather have my kid smoking pot than drinking.

These dust storms.... Poor farmer spent a lifetime fixin' his farm and everything, goes out and looks down at it, and it's up above him.