Hell lies at the bottom of the human heart.

I have a secret passion for mercy. . . but justice is what keeps happening to people.

Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.

The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world of disasters.

There are certain families whose members should all live in different towns - different states, if possible - and write each other letters once a year.

When there's trouble in a family, it tends to show up in the weakest member. And all the other members of the family know that. They make allowances for the one in trouble.

The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.

Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again.

An ugly woman with a gun is a terrible thing.

As a man gets older, if he knows what is good for him,, the women he likes are getting older too. The trouble is that most of them are married.

The problems I had existed before I did, and I discovered them.

There was so much to say that we said nothing.

Grown men may learn from very little children, for the hearts of little children are pure, and, therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

The machine yes the machine never wastes anybody's time never watches the foreman never talks back.

The only reason you should be an entrepreneur is because that's the only way the idea will come into the world.

I wondered if I would talk about drug use. But I guess, why hide it?

Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole.

I had my 15 minutes of being the new boy of pop, like lots of people before and after me. Overnight, everyone starts treating you differently, and perceives you differently.

Marry me, Gracie. Marry me and let me take care of you. Let me love you and prove it each and every day.

Our very eyes Are sometimes, like our judgments, blind.