I'm a kid checking mail, a kid on his cell with his questions: are we in love, Life, are we exclusive, are we forever?

Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean.

Nothing important comes with instructions.

What is more yours than what always holds you back?

The best way to know your faults is to notice which ones you accuse others of.

Writing is like washing windows in the sun. With every attempt to perfect clarity, you make a new smear.

When I am trying to write I turn on music so I can hear what is keeping me from hearing.

Sophistication is upscale conformity.

The happy and the suffering probably understand life equally well, but the sufferers may see a little more clearly how little it is that they understand.

It is the empty seats that listen most raptly.

All work is the avoidance of harder work.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scars.

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

I dont know how to add things to my own wikipedia page.

I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5-lb. perch in my lake. (Answering a reporter who asked him to name the best moment of his Presidency.)

Stress is something that's created in the mind, basically. It's how we look at things. So ovr greatest defense against stress is the ability to change ovr minds; to change ovr thinking.

I keep both eyes on my man. The basket hasn't moved on me yet.

Heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace.

Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.

There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.