Nobody had been more surprised than Jack to discover that when he was happy, he wanted to make others happy. What a soggy lot of rubbish, but there you had it.

The saddest thing a girl can do is dumb herself down for a guy.

Only the goodness of heart and an intellect to match can produce such a perfect woman in nature.

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.

It’s pretty impossible to hurt what Death protects.

In order to meditate correctly, you must have knowledge.

It's hard to know really how it's going to happen, but the career ebbs and flows and now there's a nicer feeling of interest than there has been at other times.

It's not in our nature. Americans have never been a people that drive through a nice neighborhood and say, 'Oh, I hate the people who live in these nice houses.'

Oh, well, I'd like to have commercial success. I guess.

I have always been caught by the pull of the unremarkable, by the easily missed, infinitely nourishing beauty of the mundane.