I can understand that memory must be selective, else it would choke on the glut of experience. What I cannot understand is why it selects what it does.

Not only are there as many conflicting truths as there are people to claim them; there are equally multitudinous and conflicting truths within the individual.

However often marriage is dissolved, it remains indissoluble. Real divorce, the divorce of the heart and nerve and fiber, does not exist, since there is no divorce from memory.

In Reno, there is always a bull market, never a bear market, for the stocks and bonds of happiness.

Perhaps it is the expediency in the political eye that blinds it.

There is no plummet to sound another's soul.

Love by its presence, like God by His, makes everything not necessarily clear or right or even good, but acceptable. Whereas in its absence, as in His, there is no hope.

Never regret. If it's good it's wonderful. If it's bad it's experience.

When we set aside the burden of judgment, then our hands and hearts are free to serve others with joy. Such service is truly the way of the Christian.

From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.

You can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example.

...good luck waits to come to that man who accepts opportunity.

I wish there were a healthier Republican Party in the state of Oregon.

A CD these days is not all that convenient, and it doesn't bring enough fidelity to make you put up with that inconvenience. So, nobody buys CDs anymore.

I think all photographs lie. They capture such a small amount of a person's personality, if they capture anything.

If there's anything to learn from the history of movies, it's that corruption leads to further corruption, not to innocence.

The enduring life is the one that begins once we awaken from this world. And it is in that awakening that we realize... It was only a dream