The boy Prewitt loved the songs because they gave him something, a first hint that pain might not be pointless if you could only turn it into something.

The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.

It did not last long. It is only in the movies that knife fighters stab and miss and slash and miss and tussle over several city blocks.

He had not the makings of that honest man to whom success comes naturally.

The little bit you and me might change the world, " Malloy smiled, "it wouldnt show up until a hundred years after we were dead. We'd never see it.""But it'd be there.

Doing what you love isn't a priviledge; it's an obligation.

Flood your life with ideas from many sources. Creativity needs to be exercised like a muscle. If you don't use it, you'll lose it!

Sometimes we can make everything a little too perfect. I always was a fan of giving direction, but every now and then going, "I don't know. What do you think? Let's see what happens."

All one's personality is embedded in gloves and hats after they've been good and used. Show me a glove and I'll tell you the character of its owner.

Can a man of perception respect himself at all?

Whoever came up with ice fishing must have had the worst marriage on the planet.

We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.

People in good moods are better at inductive reasoning and creative problem solving.

I love this world because it is imperfect. It is imperfect, and that's why it is growing; if it was perfect it would have been dead.

The funny part is I feel like somebody is stalking me, like, at my local course and sizing up my game.