My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold and anything else is just a waste of time.

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.

We often do to people what people are very comfortable with doing to animals without a second thought.

History within itself cannot be transcended. ... In history itself there are only relative victories.

Hungry ears are sharp ones.

Leap, and the net appears.

That's the magic of revisions - every cut is necessary, and every cut hurts, but something new always grows.

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.

The Travises who had survived were the most purely stubborn people on earth, the kind who relied on their backbones when their wishbones were broken.

Keep laughing. As long as you’re laughing you still have hope.

I always play more than I talk, so the more I talk, the more I'll play.

If there were no way into God, I would not have lain in the grave of this body so long.