If all the businesses in town are run like country businesses, You are going to have a country town

A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune

I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.

Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves.

It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels. That had no sister.

Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed.

Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar...

Amid the pointing and the horror, the clean flame.

It's not when you realise that nothing can help you - religion, pride, anything - it's when you realise that you don't need any aid.

A revolution is taking place within her, as though a lifetime's experience could be outdistanced in the span of a conversation.

love is ... something extraordinary that happens to ordinary people.

My love is inside me where my fat was.

How about if I had two people in the race? The number would've been twice as good. In other words, people with 2 million people. Because the Republican party increased.

Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.

They think I'm going to be a schoolteacher but I'm going to be a poet.

If I was your boyfriend, I'd never let you go, keep you in my arms girl, you'd never be alone, and I could be a gentlemen anything you want, if I was your boyfriend.

There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.

SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing.

I loved 'Rocky' and 'Rambo', and am very proud of them.