I did learn something about insanity while I was down there. People go crazy, not because they are crazy, but because it's the best available option at the time.

...lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.

Tragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road. For the record, that was something Daddy used to say.

Life used to move much more quickly when I was a girl. We needed to abbreviate just to keep up.

There's a difference between being alive and living.

My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart.

Daddy used to say that calling a person a romantic was just another way of saying he or she acted without regard for conseqences.

On the board, Mr. Beery had written "Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it." I wasn't sure if this was meant to be inspirational, thematic, or a joke about making sure to study.

Tragedy is when someone ends up dead.Everything else is just a bump in the road.

The more silent you are at bed during times of crisis, the more are the chances of an amicable, dignified and a not so counterproductive interchange of romantic exuberance.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say.

There's no substitute for work. There are no shortcuts. There are no secrets.

I like to think - knowing that it's an enabling fiction - of those moments as fragments from a world to come, a world where price isn't the only measure of value.

It's hard to be happy for someone when you know deep down they'd kill you if they had the chance.

If I were to do this over I'd play a lot more shows before I made a record

Reading means borrowing.

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

Now Peter said by exceeding great and precious promises you become partakers of the divine class. All right, are we gods? We are a class of gods!