Still, wouldn't you, even if entirely secure in your own sense of direction, be at least curious where others were heading, even as you struck out on your own ?

Let me be to my sad self hereafter kind.

As a camera is an instrument that teaches us how to see when we don't have a camera, writing is a process that teaches how to think when we are not writing.

When I think good thoughts, I feel that man is not, after all, so bad.

If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again.

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

I'm kind of an idea guy.

If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.

Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze.

I am a better cook than I am an actor. If I have any ego, it's about cooking. I'm one of the best cooks... and I cook in any language.

I can't never stop nobody, can't knock nobody hustle.

Mickey's a nice fellow who never does anyone any harm, who gets into scrapes through no fault of his own but always manages to come up grinning.