I've tried to believe, but I don't, I can't, and there's no use pretending.

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

[Nicodemus] 'Magistra DeVega, can I ask for your help?'[DeVega] 'You can ask, ' she said with her usual calmness, 'but the clerics haven't developed a cure for death by idiotic leadership.

I would like to get married, actually. I've done everything else in my life now except that, but where do I find the real thing? The non-phony? In Los Angeles? I am not so sure.

And if my mind breaks up In all so many ways I know the meaning of The words, "I love you

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

I am a total believer of making the process a good time - make it memorable, have some fun, try to shoot high in your quality and then dont get crazy, see what happens.

No. I usually rest in my satin-lined coffin, actually. I'm not allowed out in daylight hours.

Anyway, I am unfitted to hold down a job anywhere unless they were to pay me for getting angry at the world." 96

What a sad thing men are. Can’t do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can’t build something up without tearing it down.

The love that makes community is the willingness to do someone else's dirty work.