It's like it ain't so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.

People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.

I am the chosen of the Lord, for who He loveth, so doeth He chastiseth. But I be durn if He dont take some curious ways to show it, seems like.

Yet the motion of the saw has not faltered, as though it and the arm functioned in a tranquil conviction that rain was an illusion of the mind.

It's like there was a fellow in every man that's done a-past the sanity or the insanity, that watches the sane and the insane doings of that man with the same horror and the same astonishment.

... a man aint so different from a horse or a mule, come long come short, except a mule or a horse has got a little more sense.

Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.

Every great story begins with a very courageous step into the land of the unknown.

It struck me that distant cities are designed precisely so you can know where you came from.

We have become indifferent to content, and react, not even to form, but to technique, to technical efficiency itself.

At first I thought I should be a second Beethoven; presently I found that to be another Schubert would be good; then gradually, satisfied with less and less, I resigned to be a Humperdinck.

Ever since I was a kid, I've had an enormous interest in the sciences - everything from quantum physics to anthropology.

the pain we suffer is a way to make us appreciate what comes next.

American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President.

Unfortunately, sometimes people don't hear you until you scream.

I cannot understand how anyone conscious of mortal sin can laugh or be merry.