Life’s all about the revolution, isn’t it? The one inside, I mean. You can’t change history. You can’t change the world. All you can ever change is yourself.

Because beautiful things never last. Not roses nor snow… And not fireworks, either

Meet me where the sky touches the sea. Wait for me where the world begins.

Why is it that weeks and months and years go by so quickly, all in a blur, but moments last forever?

I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse thing to let a promise break you.

Yeah. Sure. My brother's dead. My mother's insame. Hey, let's have a crepe.

Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.

For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.

History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about the past.

Together in our house, in the firelight, we are the world made small.

We're not punished for our sins, lad. We're punished by them.

And if we never visit Paris, that's okay. Your heart is my exotic destination every day.

I have seen many educated persons splitting garbage over roads and many uneducated persons cleaning it.

Talking to strangers sounded like talking to no one, which Henry had some firsthand experience in- in real life. It was lonely. Almost as lonely as Lake View Cemetery, where he'd buried Ethel.

Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.

Clearly, politics is a team sport. Trump is not so much of a team player.

I don't see myself as legendary. If you want a legend, talk about someone like Duke Kahanamoku.

I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye.

Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to be healed, then our unhealed places are forced to the surface.

Campaign staffers develop the ability to sleep through anything.

I knew it was unrealistic to think I could build an institution overnight. But if I took baby steps, eventually it would happen.