Smile and the world smiles with you, cry and you cry alone.

Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco.

I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.

The world didn't stop because we weren't in it anymore.

All my integrity seemed to lie in saying No.

Freedom was the price of privacy.

Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?

An observer can’t tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.

She wasn't blotto, she was plotting.

When life gives you a lemon, chuck it right back.... and add a few lemons of your own.

Don't be ridiculous. Brussels sprouts are awful. Jail is just jail.

He can give me what you cannot. Death is not a lover. Oh yes, he is.

I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting.

We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding on technicolor prairies and rivers.

Well I should be sitting in an air-conditioned office in a swivel chair, talking trash to the secretary. Saying, hey now mama, come on over here.

Ah Padriac. I have often wondered if boys who have flaming red hair up top also have...yep.

Apple trees bear apples, wheat stalks produce wheat, and forgiven people forgive people.

One of the ways to avoid being beaten by the system is to laugh at it.

What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?