Then they’re always trying to sell you something. Everything is based on forcing people to buy. If you can’t buy what they’re selling, you’re a zero in the system.

He was a regulator first-class, which was another term for metalworker unskilled.

God made big people. And God made little people. But Colt made the .45 to even things up.

Secrets are an exalted state, almost a dream state. They're a way of arresting motion, stopping the world so we can see ourselves in it.

The environment that creates winners is almost always made up of winners.

In America, we have struggled too much, too long as a country trying to overcome racism and sexism and homophobia. We cannot go back to a more discriminatory society.

I saw him making love to you, you forgot to close the garage door.

In a time of rapid change, standing still is the most dangerous course of action.

I don't want to just live delivered but I want to live free.

Marriage: a souvenir of love.

[Cities] are not like suburbs, only denser. They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of these is that cities are, by definition, full of strangers.

It is the body, subject to the harmony of the steps it is executing, which speaks. And it speaks to the heart in as direct a language as does music.

God never gives strength for tomorrow, or for the next hour, but only for the strain of the minute.

We envy others, for we see their lives in broad outline, while forced to live ours in every detail.