The fatal flaw of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you.

To think of losing is to lose already.

It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.

... possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer.

Spring is strictly sentimental, self-regarding; but I burn more careless in the autumn bonfire.

Inflation is the senility of democracies.

cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.

One cannot overestimate the power of a good rancorous hatred on the part of the stupid. The stupid have so much more industry and energy to expend on hating. They build it up like coral insects.

Truth has beauty, power, and necessity.

Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste.

[John Craske] painted like a man giving witness under oath to a wild story.

War is food and drink and disease and patience and anger and hate and cold and stealth and terror as well as sweet silver and bitter iron and the glitter of arms in the sun or under the moon.

Sometimes that’s what it takes. Putting it all out there and hoping love wins.

It is the lot of man to suffer.

Easy writing makes hard reading.

I am corrupted to the bone with the beauty of this forsaken world.

There are a lot of parts of who I am that no one in the public has ever known, but the older I've gotten, the more I've appreciated my own strange little self and come to terms with that.

You cannot grow more hours in the day. However, you can make better use of those hours.

So many directors are solely focused on their own success in Hollywood and multimillion dollar budgets and deals.

I much prefer the road. My thing is getting live in front of people. There is a sterile environment to a studio that doesnt make me let go.

I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a dayspare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote.