People think they know what they want but they generally don't. Sometimes if they're lucky they'll get it anyways.

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.

I would follow in your footsteps if I wasn't so busy making my own.

I'm writing novels because I found something I love because I tried it. Don't be afraid to shake it up.

A luxury meal was prairie sandwiches - two slices of bread with wide-open spaces between them.

The biggest difference would be made if we don't have wars to begin with.

if only my whole life could be words and music, if only everything else could slip away.

I urge you to be bold. Life isn't changed from the balcony. Get onto the floor and dance, dance, dance.

Americans are funny people: first you shock them, then they put you in a museum.

Your money, or your life. We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does.

Decision is the ultimate power. Decisions shape destiny.

Finish, good lady; the bright day is done, And we are for the Dark.