One wife, you're happy, two and you're tired, three and they'll hate each other, four and they'll hate you.

When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God.

Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding.

She taught me I should never do anything in private I did not want talked about in public, and cautioned me not to talk in my sleep.

Metal rusts, music lasts forever.

Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear.

No hard feelings about that time in the Crucible when you mixed my salts and I was nearly blind for a day. No. No, really, drink up!

He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places.

In a deck of playing cards, the reds are as important as the blacks.

Someone who lives vicariously will never be truly happy because they're not happy with themselves.

the man eventually becomes what he dreams of"By T. Afsin Ilgar - Ted's Tale

Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.

I never believed in the danger of a third world war.

I think there is nothing sexier than a handlebar moustache.

When someone's got your rear tires off the ground, you don't have much traction.

How unfortunate it is to be constrained by what people might say at our funeral or on our gravestone.

There is no love which does not become help.

The game is won or lost on hundreds of small details.