If we all had all we wanted to eat, we'd crap too much. We'd have inflation in the toilet paper industry.

Then he laughed and she laughed. And quivering with the movement of the train, the dead man seemed to laugh too.

I kissed her, a long hard kiss. Because baby didn't know it, but baby was dead, and in a way I couldn't have loved her more.

There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.

There are thirty-two ways to write a story, and I’ve used every one, but there is only one plot – things are not as they seem.

When life attains a crisis, man’s focus narrows. […] The world becomes a stage of immediate concern, swept free of illusion.

You've got forever; and somehow you can't do much with it. You've got forever; and it's a mile wide and an inch deep and full of alligators.

I'd been chasing females all my life, not paying no mind to the fact that whatever's got tail at one end has teeth at the other, and now I was getting chomped.

I found out long ago that the place where the law is apt to be abused the most is right around a courthouse.

If the Good Lord made a mistake in us people it was in making us want to live when we’ve got the least excuse for it.

A weed is a plant out of place.

I need to accept God’s love and forgiveness, turning away from my sin and toward Him starting every day anew just as His mercies are new every morning.

One of the reasons ordinary people are incapable of magic is simple dearth of conviction.

A man must make of his life a ladder that he never ceases to climb -- if you're not rising, you are slipping down the rungs, my friend.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

It is better to listen to a wise enemy than to seek counsel from a foolish friend.

Love is the way back into Eden. It is the way back to life.

I don't like talking about sequels or spinoffs or franchise until they actually happen, until they actually work with the audience.

God is not calling us to work for Him. He is calling us to walk with Him.

It takes visions and courage to create. It takes faith and courage to prove.

Anybody out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedrooms,as a favor to me, let them do it. It'll be OK.