Shoot, boy, the country's just fulla folks what knows everything, and don't understand nothing, just fullofem.

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.

Death devours not only those who have been cooked by old age

To make the fastest progress, Be an absolutely cheerfulHero-warriorAnd take both victory and failureAs parallel experience riversLeading to the sea Of progress-delight.

Forgiveness is most Christlike when it is given to the undeserving.

Books can break a man open, even ones about a panda, maybe especially so.

President Bush is not fazed by other candidates' war records. He said, I may have not fought in Vietnam, but I created one.

I'm no good at predicting what will endure with people. I only know what speaks to me.

That the soft overcomes the hard, and the yielding overcomes the resistant, is a fact known by all, but practiced by few.

I'm making a kind of a memoir of certain aspects and times in my life. Now that I'm older I can look back and analyze some things, and see the root of things.

Everton are literally a bag of Revells.

The calendar is intolerable to all wisdom, the horror of all astronomy, and a laughing stock from a mathematician's point of view.