[Myrnin to Claire about their costumes of Pierrot and Harlequin, respectively]"Don't they teach you anything in your sch

Maybe I should, I don't know leave? Because this is starting to sound like one of those reality shows I don't want to be in. Maybe you guys want to take turns in the confessional booth.

Jealous?""Maybe.""No reason. I like my ladies with a pulse.

This is the biggest damn IPod I've ever seen, " Claire said, which made him choke on his beer. "Kidding. I have seen a jukebox before.

The power of gratitude is everlasting blessings.

At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important.

Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.

A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin

Every profession is a conspiracy against the laity.

Proper preparation is the key to our success. Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts. Our thinking can be no wiser than our understanding.

Any society that is silencing its women has no future.

You have to tap into the child in you. If you can get to that innocent place, then you're golden. That was the subconscious goal for me.

Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet.

Cigars served me for precisely fifty years as protection and a weapon in the combat of life... I owe to the cigar a great intensification of my capacity to work and a facilitation of my self-control.