I wondered why I hadn't realized before that art was hard because you had to recreate not merely the scene but the way it soared into your soul and changed you.

People aren't good or bad. They just do good or bad things. Your only hope is to know which is which.

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

I didn't plan on being a single mom, but you have to deal with the cards you are dealt the best way you can.

'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

Not that the Red Indian will ever possess the broad lands of America. At least I presume not. But his ghost will.

If I am still doing what I'm doing and I still have respect in this town, haven't done anything completely and utterly stupid, then I'll be happy with myself.

Whether fighting or spitting, my discipline is unforgiving!

I think we will work our way towards a position that says that having more than two children is irresponsible.

Your bird drinks whiskey and eats tobacco?" The old man frowned."Just be lad he doesn't like eatin' scrawny boys that don't know their way 'round the Otherworld.

[Norden] said, with the Mark 15 Norden bombsight, he could drop a bomb into a pickle barrel at 20,000 feet.

All nature seems at work.