Oh Jesus God we did belong to each other. He was mine.

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

Many little steps joined one after the other is what makes success possible. Keep doing little stuffs every day. Don’t give up!

Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

If you have a religion it must be cosmic.

I don't play anything but the blues, but now I could never make no money on nothin' but the blues. That's why I wasn't interested in nothin' else.

Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

My philosophy of defense is to keep the pressure on an opponent until you get to his emotions

In the best travel books the word alone is implied on every exciting page, as subtle and ineradicable as a watermark.

Isn't it strange how much we know if only we ask ourselves instead of somebody else.

Behind every great man there stands a great woman. Behind every great woman is a great behind.