Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?

Time cures you first, and then it kills you.

Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.

The room looks as if a giant dog after a large lunch of food, socks, paints, trousers and pencils, walked into that room and vomited everywhere.

Sometimes history cleaves and for one helpless moment stands still like the pause when the ax splits a log and the two halves rest on end waiting to fall.

I almost never respect men. They're like flowers -- all show, a lot of color and lust. You pick them and throw them on the ground.

We are bodies, sometimes with dreams and always with desires.

She never says gracias because life is made of survival not grace, she says, and servants are paid to bring what they're asked.

Why does a person spend money on a stamp to spout bile at a stranger?

The giant beech next door intends to shiver off every hair of its pelt.

...when the public nerve is aroused, the most impressive capacity of man is his skill for lying.

As a boy, reading was my religion. It helped me to discover my soul. Later, writing helped me to record its journey.

Miracles are waiting for you. All you have to do is go and meet them

John Moncur has been much more effective since he came on

It has been my custom for many years to read the Bible in its entirety once a year

It was a long period of time where I tried to figure out what worked, what didn't work.

Can one do nothing for the dead? And for a long time the answer had been - Nothing!

Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.

There were people you could hug, and then there was Silas.

Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric.

Feel the wrath of wheat!