The difference between those who adapted and those who didn't, Gorton said, was a willingness to totally commit.

What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else?

There are no shortcuts—everything is reps, reps, reps.

He had a voice you couldn't miss: strong and penetrating with strange vowels that sounded different from the accents of other English speakers even to me. I later discovered that he was Canadian.

Laughter erupted from her belly and shot out her mouth like pigeons through an open cage door, schoolchildren bursting into summer vacation, water from a tapped hydrant.

We all want to be guilty, because guilt is power.

An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.

How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?

Every day, in the USA, our radar instruments capture objects of form and composition unknown to us. And there are thousands of witness reports and a quantity of documents to prove this.

I don't know about carry out, but you can carry me off to bed.

It hurts every day, the absence of someone who was once there.

My family has to be very patient living with me, if you're playing a part that's not you. You have to get it right.

I don't owe no one no obligation, and no one owe me none so every 'ting is fine.

Some things hurt, you know, and there's pain. But we magnify the suffering of it often, I think, by our reactions.