It is very difficult to win. It's not in my script.

Why love what you will lose?There is nothing else to love.

Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary, imperial joy and sorrow of human existence, the dreamed as well as the lived—what could be dearer than this, given the closeness of death?

I think here I will leave you. It has come to seemthere is no perfect ending.Indeed, there are infinite endings.Or perhaps, once one begins, there are only endings.

It is true that there is not enough beauty in the world. It is also true that I am not competent to restore it. Neither is there candor, and here I may be of some use.

We look at the world once, in childhood.The rest is memory

I am tired of having handsshe saidI want wings —But what will you do without your handsto be human?I am tired of humanshe saidI want to live on the sun —

You’re not a creature in body.You exist as the stars exist, participating in their stillness, their immensity.

You know, he said, our work is difficult: we confrontmuch sorrow and disappointment.He gazed at me with increasing frankness.I was like you once, he added, in love with turbulence.

Once I could imagine my soulI could imagine my death.When I imagined my deathmy soul died. ThisI remember clearly.My body persisted.Not thrived, but persisted.Why I do not know.

But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.

Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.

I like to make them squirm.

Nothing can occur in your life experience without the invitation of it through your thought.

It was never my intention to marry anybody. Economics are basically the only reason to get married, but I'm very glad I did it.

Best is the man who thinks for himself.

I suspect most politicians feel overwhelmed because people's lives are a real struggle, full of unhappiness, and you would probably feel powerless to do anything about it.

Every girl on TV, in real life, sure you want to meet that soul mate and fall in love and have the big thing, but until that happens, you gotta kiss a lot of frogs.

Festus, you're such a great listener.

This is a team game and one man doesn't win and one man doesn't lose. In the end, the best team usually wins.