There is only one plot-things are not what they seem.

Then he laughed and she laughed. And quivering with the movement of the train, the dead man seemed to laugh too.

I kissed her, a long hard kiss. Because baby didn't know it, but baby was dead, and in a way I couldn't have loved her more.

There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.

There are thirty-two ways to write a story, and I’ve used every one, but there is only one plot – things are not as they seem.

When life attains a crisis, man’s focus narrows. […] The world becomes a stage of immediate concern, swept free of illusion.

You've got forever; and somehow you can't do much with it. You've got forever; and it's a mile wide and an inch deep and full of alligators.

I'd been chasing females all my life, not paying no mind to the fact that whatever's got tail at one end has teeth at the other, and now I was getting chomped.

I found out long ago that the place where the law is apt to be abused the most is right around a courthouse.

If the Good Lord made a mistake in us people it was in making us want to live when we’ve got the least excuse for it.

A weed is a plant out of place.

Why live unless you live large? Death is a reality, always present, waiting, with that in mind, live today, it is everything you own.

Old people die not because no one cared for them but because someone they expected care from did not bother.

When I played sports, if you lose the game, and then you complain, that makes you a sore loser. That doesn't make you protester - that just makes you a whiner.

Slutiness is a very underrated quality in a girl.

The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end.

The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.

When we take time to quiet ourselves, we can all sense that our life could be lived with greater compassion and greater weakness.

I'm at a weird spot because I look so young and I feel young, but I'm not young.

Study the lives of our great women, who were models of patience, fortitude, compassion and sacrifice.

Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.