The smell of moist earth and lilacs hung in the air like wisps of the past and hints of the future.

the smell of lilacs crept poignantly into the room like a remembered spring.

Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines.

Shrews are made, not born.

You can't drown your troubles ... because troubles can swim.

There is no such thing as an ex-exhibitionist.

When you're counting alibis and not apples, one plus one equals none.

Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius.

When someone gives me three reasons instead of one, I'm inclined not to believe any of them.

I wish people would quit telling me to think. I think. Thinking's easy. It's not thinking that's hard.

Violence is the instinctive response to fear.

I tell you before God, and as an honest man, your son (W A Mozart)is the greatest composer known to me by person and repute, he has taste and what is more the greatest skill in composition.

When it comes to society and human consciousness, Darwinism still exists in its primal message.

Evil takes only prisoners….Time takes none."From The Tenth, chapter 28.

Young children see the innocence of life, while some adults live in innocence.

To walk out of his will is to walk into nowhere.

I think if you were to look at my resume in total you would see a lot of things that are kind of all over the map.

An inability to choose is a hallmark of anxiety... The too-anxious artist, afraid to choose, will halt dead in the water.

I hardly said a word to my wife until I said 'yes' to divorce.

If you have a coach helping you, developing your skills alongside you, that's when you're on your way to becoming not just a participant but achieving.

I love that they do that. I love action and I love doing my own stunts. I love that sort of thing.