I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

The point is there ain't no point.

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.

Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.

The rain falls upon the just And also on the unjust fellas But mostly it falls upon the just Cause the unjust have the just's umbrellas

There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.

Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

I have had wealth, rank and power, but, if these were all I had, how wretched I should be.

[A person’s] utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value.

Trying to save ecosystems has more to do with changing egosystems.

Fidelity is simply daring to be true in small things as well as great.

I find that the history books that we teach our kids with are not fully truthful, in my opinion.

it's easier to forgive your enemies than to forgive your friends.

A picture does a great job, but it's not nearly like being there.

Listen: if I am a painter and I do your portrait, have I or haven't I the right to paint you as I want?

If it were left to us, we would all fall away from the faith and perish.

If England has any dignity left in the way of literature, she will forget for ever the pitiful antics of English Literature's performing flea.