Memphis found his smile. 'You know me, sir. I don't wear worry.

There is no greater power on this earth than story.

People always fear what they don't understand, Evangeline. History proves that.

Naughty John, Naughty John, does his work with his apron on. Cuts your throat and takes your bones, sells 'em off for a coupla stones.

Careful there, Poet. I might start to believe you.

. . . chasing after words like trying to grab the tails of comets.

The police have asked for my help. There's been a murder.""A murder! Oh, my. Let me just change my shoes, " Evie said excitedly. "It won't be a minute.

Beliefs converge and become something new all the time.

Could I have a Sloe Gin Fizz, without the gin?""What's the point of that, Miss?" the waiter said."Tomorrow morning, " Mabel said.

Let your playerhaters be your motivators.

I manage to hold the poker face when she submits to dominance, to the summons, and swans into my arms, pressing her quivering form against mine when she embraces me.

When the lyrical content is based on the word of God it becomes covenanted.

If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the painful process of finding it.

The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals.

I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself.

I would say chemistry between two people is very powerful. You have to fight to keep it, but if you don't have it, you can't manufacture it.

I never did a right thing or abstained from a wrong one from any consideration of reward or punishment.

I learned a lot about humility and patience, keeping my mouth shut.

I was really gifted at being able to construct a joke, but it's like they weren't even memorable, my first jokes, because they were so about nothing.