I'm being ironic. Don't interrupt a man in the midst of being ironic, it's not polite. There!

Why live? Life was its own answer. Life was the propagation of more life and the living of as good a life as possible.

I'm numb and I'm tired. Too much has happened today. I feel as if I'd been out in a pounding rain for forty-eight hours without an umbrella or a coat. I'm soaked to the skin with emotion.

Sleeping beauty awoke at the kiss of a scientist and expired at the fatal puncture of his syringe.

Men are men, unfortunately, no matter what their shape, and inclined to sin.

Raw, gentle, and easy, it mizzled out of the high air, a special elixir, tasting of spells and stars and air, carrying a peppery dust in it, and moving like a rare light sherry on his tongue. Rain.

You're insane!""I won't argue that point.

Perfect, faultless, in ruins, yes, but perfect, nevertheless.

A man is rich not only by what he has, but also, and above all, by what he doesn't.

I am the philosophy before any philosopher.

Chuck Palahniuk asked which is worse: Hell or nothing. Here is my answer: Of course nothing! Because even in Hell, there is hope!

Justice does not descend from its own pinnacle.

It is curious how much more interest can be evoked by a mixture of gossip, romance and mystery than by facts.

The John Ford pictures I made are highly regarded, but at the time they didn't seem like that.

I came from an upper-middle class home, which is always a hard cross for a country singer to bear.

Alone with Giddon again, Bitterblue considered him, rather liking the mud streaks on his face. He looked like a handsome sunken rowboat.

To me, that's the foundational fact of my identity is that I'm a journalist and so it's hard to imagine putting anything else first.

What we're seeing early on is Democrats rallying around Al Gore, Republicans rallying around George Bush and the difficulty of anybody else to get any room in the race.