The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.

I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.

I have always wanted to write in such a way that will make people think, Why, I've always thought that but never found the words for it.

Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.

Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

I was caught in a love triangle with one dead side.

But time in only another liar, so go along the wall a little further: if blackberries prove bitter there'll be mushrooms, fairy-ring mushrooms in the grass, sweetest of all fungi.

For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die.

Winning is very tangible, it's very exciting, it's very pleasing, but it's momentary. If you can do things that last, that each generation can build upon, then that's when you're cooking.

My parents were kind enough to spend hours talking to me.

I think there is something very relatable in the idea that you hit a certain age, later in your life, where you realize you have to pick up the rug and see what's underneath it and deal with stuff.

A man will reveal his true self, or so it seems, on the tennis court.

At the end of reasons comes persuasion.

God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil ... and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution.

Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.