Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.

I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.

Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.

ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crises with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.

Time, the spaces of light and dark, had long since lost orderliness.

Memory believes before knowing remembers.[Light in August]

It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate.

When it's a matter of not-do, I reckon a man can trust himself for advice. But when it comes to a matter of doing, I reckon a fellow had better listen to all the advice he can get.

It is the man who all his life has been self-convicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.

The mysteries of life enfold with time.

The only permanence is change

a good part of the trick to being a first-rate scientist is in asking the right questions or asking them in ways that make it possible to find answers.

For when the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through places without water, seeking rest; and not finding. . .

Your parents are your projection-nothing more.

I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible.

I was very comfortable on the set of Lost. I was so nervous when I went on to the set because I had just watched all the Lost episodes. I was, like, a fan. A big fan.

The best wines take the longest to mature.

I never desired to really go to Hollywood and make films, and purely because I want my entire control, which I'm used to having.

For 86 years I have served Jesus Christ and he has never abandoned me. How could I curse my blessed king and savior?