So this is it ⎯ what cost me all that time. A man who turned out to be old, a house that turned out to be empty.

If I had a view like this to look down on every day, I would have the energy and inspiration to conquer the world. The trouble is, when you most need such a view, no one gives it to you.

Vinegar: that's what fear smells like.

Her only thought was of getting away, as if she were carrying a live grenade from inside the house, so that when it exploded, it would destroy just herself.

I’m sorry and I believe in you and I’ll always be near you, protecting you, and I will never leave you, I’ll be curled around your heart for the rest of your life.

The world is full of shitheads, Rhea. Don’t listen to them—listen to me. And I know that Lou is one of those shitheads. But I listen.

It was the hat. He looked sweet in the hat. How could a man in a fuzzy blue hat have used human bones to pave his roads?

Rich children are always blond, Jocelyn goes. It has to do with vitamins.

Time’s a goon, right? You gonna let that goon push you around?” Scotty shook his head. “The goon won.

This is the music business. 'Five years is five hundred years' - your words.

Kathy was a Republican, one of those people who used the unforgivable phrase "meant to be"--usually when describing her own good fortune or the disasters that had befallen other people.

The biggest fear a corporate government has is that the masses will refuse to work.

Florida: God's waiting room.

A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God... When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy.

Mystery is the art of eliciting unseen things hidden in the shadow of natural ones... and serving to demonstrate as real the things that are not.

I was piggy. But I'm not that person anymore.

The e-mails [from WikiLeaks] show that behind closed doors speaking to these international bankers, Hillary Clinton's pledged to destroy the sovereignty of the United States.

The only thing of real importance that leader do is to create and manage culture

Dreams, though, are just one kind of inspiration - no more or less special than something in a newspaper article or from the world around you sparking inspiration.

Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.

It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.