There is no knowing what is in a man's heart.

Listen, here's what I'd like to do: I'd like to live in a trailer and play records all night.

You must pay for everything in this world one way and another. There is nothing free except the Grace of God. You cannot earn that or deserve it.

Time just gets away from us.

My Master of Arts degree means nothing at all to these monkeys and I have come to share their indifference.

I know what they said even if they would not say it to my face. People love to talk. They love to slander you if you have any substance.

But I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool?

The wicked flee when none pursueth.

As he drank, little brown drops of coffee clung to his mustache like dew. Men will live like billy goats if they are let alone.

Lookin' back is a bad habit.

Nothing I like to do pays well.

I want you to wrestle with the Bible. Do it. Wrestle until, Jacob-like, you walk with a limp ever after, and you receive the blessing of the Lord.

Well, " I ask, leaning over him, "do you wish to stay?""I do.""And why is that, Cole?" I say, tipping toward him so that our noses nearly brush."Well, " he says with a smile, "the weather's quite nice.

My mother always says that indifference is the greatest cruelty.

Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.

Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.

I am allergic to cats, the cat in 'Don't Stop' was actually a very small fury human.

But why must choices always lie along a linear spectrum with two poles instead of say among a sphere of possibilities

I believe in being positive.

Kit Kittredge was an amazing experience because I got to go to Canada, and it was my first era film, so I got to wear the 1930s clothes, the real vintage clothes.

I'm getting grumpier all the time.