It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.

I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.

Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.

ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crises with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.

Time, the spaces of light and dark, had long since lost orderliness.

Memory believes before knowing remembers.[Light in August]

When it's a matter of not-do, I reckon a man can trust himself for advice. But when it comes to a matter of doing, I reckon a fellow had better listen to all the advice he can get.

It is the man who all his life has been self-convicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.

Dream, Dream DreamDreams transform into thoughts And thoughts result in action.

Dream hurts

As he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature.

The one who praises you is a thief. The one who criticizes you is your true friend.

I like California but I'm dyed-in-the-wool Oklahoma. I see a deer in L.A., and everybody's standing around it taking pictures. Back home, that's the enemy!

Inaction may be safe, but it builds nothing.

Logic is a very beautiful thing. As long as it is not abused.

And I kissed him back so hard, like I was trying to merge our bodies through our lips.

Evil can do anything, for a price.

What country is stabler than Iran? Where else in the world would an assassinated prime minister be so quickly replaced?