It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

The point is there ain't no point.

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.

Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.

The rain falls upon the just And also on the unjust fellas But mostly it falls upon the just Cause the unjust have the just's umbrellas

There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.

Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

Great wits jump

Being in Australia, I was really sun conscious. For a couple of summers there, I did the baby oil thing, and my my mom said, 'Just don't. You'll regret it.'

Looking back on the God my friend believed in, he seems a little erratic, not entirely unlike her father - God as borderline personality.

I view every film as a commitment to undertake a long journey.

Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind.

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.

I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral teething, and I grind with greater energy, in proportion to the increase of pain.

Manipulation is moving together for my advantage. Motivation is moving together for mutual advantage.

After I was married a year I remembered things like radio stations and forgot my husband.

I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares, as opposed to ugly things. That's my intent.