Listen, here's what I'd like to do: I'd like to live in a trailer and play records all night.

You must pay for everything in this world one way and another. There is nothing free except the Grace of God. You cannot earn that or deserve it.

Time just gets away from us.

My Master of Arts degree means nothing at all to these monkeys and I have come to share their indifference.

I know what they said even if they would not say it to my face. People love to talk. They love to slander you if you have any substance.

But I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool?

The wicked flee when none pursueth.

As he drank, little brown drops of coffee clung to his mustache like dew. Men will live like billy goats if they are let alone.

Lookin' back is a bad habit.

Nothing I like to do pays well.

If you want anything done right you will have to see to it yourself every time.

Does he expect the flood to just move out of his way if he asks nicely?

There are bearded fools.

My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.

I read very little contemporary anything.

To tell you the truth although it would put £500 in my pockets to specify my own patent rails, I cannot do so after the experience I have had.

Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind, Hath look'd on no religion scornfully That men did ever find.

Love is just like a breeze: it comes, but you should not close your doors to keep the breeze inside.

News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself.

Just because something isn't practical doesn't mean it's not worth creating. Sometimes beauty and real-life magic are enough.

Acknowledgment of torture is not accountability for it.