The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know.

We can all of us be hurt, and no one is exclusively safe from worry and sadness.

Luck was something you either earned or invented through strength of character. You had to come by it honestly; you could not trick or bluff your way into it.

I lay in the dark thinking about the difficulties of family, how crazy and crooked the stories of a bloodline can be.

Come with me into the world and reclaim your independence. You stand to gain so much, and riches are the least of it.

He is not bad, I don't think. Perhaps he is simply too lazy to be good.

I do not know what it was about that boy but just looking at him, even I wanted to clout him on the head. It was a head that invited violence.

Our blood is the same, we just use it differently.

Work will drive you crazy if you let it.

I sighed. ‘It doesn’t matter what we do. Money comes and goes.’ I shook my head. ‘It doesn’t matter and you know it doesn’t.

I will never be a leader of men, and neither do I want to be one, and neither do I want to be led. I thought: I want to lead only myself.

A common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know why they draw.

Life never ceases. Life is an overflowing source, and death is only an obscure effect of illusions.

My job is to try to advance American foreign policy, to try to advance the president's agenda on democracy and human rights.

Sometimes you need to sit in the wrong place to see the right view.

I couldn't care less what anyone's 'perception' of me is. I'm too long in the tooth to care.

I just like living in certain atmospheres. Or I just like people as they are.

I don't believe in open relationships. If you want to be with someone else, you shouldn't be in a relationship in the first place.

The mistakes are there, waiting to be made

You don’t get off easy, you just get to finish faster!

I boxed 15 years in a club.