Repetition is the death of art.

For people to judge a man's worth and his very manhood according to the way he feels about sport, and not to recognize it for the piddly, inconsequential goings on that it really is.

I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

My masculinity isn't hinged on whether or not I knit.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

The rest of the short walk was silent. It was that loud sortof silence where the absence is painful, when there’s so much tosay, but nothing is said.

The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character.

You have to be careful not to use anything too colloquial or you date the book.

Pity, but never love bestows kind words upon the slave.

The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.

In my experience it's not essential to get on with the person that you're acting opposite.

Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on seas and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.

I think Nevada is going to really be the first true test of whether or not these candidates have particular strengths in particular demographics.

I always knew I wanted to make films, but just didn't quite know how to start. I was making little short films with my friends but I wasn't quite sure how to put those pieces together for myself.

The created order is everywhere punched and torn open by ellipses, drifts, and leaks of meaning: it is a sieve-order.