There was no reality to pain when it left one, though while it held one fast all other realities faded.

A little town is like a lantern. Nothing's hid from sight.

Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.

When I was young they used to say people only threw stones at the tree that was loaded with fruit.

It's terrible when the weak are also cruel for then we are defenseless against them.

I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.

I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.

...his hoofbeats fall like rain, over and over again.

Doorbells are like a magic game, Or the grab-bag at a fair -- You never know when you hear one ring Who may be waiting there.

And scandal has a way of catching up with those who disregard its power.

I was with you at the beginning of your journey. It is right that I should follow you to its end.

In Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality.

...if you've never been cussed out by a Siamese, you don't know what profanity is all about!

Two puzzles that cannot be solved:The miracle of birth and misery of death.

It would be so nice to write songs that end up being timeless.

Find your heart, and you will find your way.

Sometimes a man does what he'd most like to avoid.

Welcome to The Daily Show, I'm John Oliver. Jon Stewart is still not here. He is currently living out a live-action Lord of the Rings role-playing experience deep in the New Zealand wilderness.

I am a fan of the compositions of The Beatles, but I don't care for their interpretation of them. But as compositions, I just think that some of them are brilliant and have become standards.

The easiest way to do art is to dispense with success and failure altogether and just get on with it.