This country will kill you in a heartbeat and still people love it.

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

The point is there ain't no point.

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.

Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.

The rain falls upon the just And also on the unjust fellas But mostly it falls upon the just Cause the unjust have the just's umbrellas

There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.

Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper.

In the first two years, when I had a strong majority in the House and the Senate, we were as productive as any administration has been since the '60s. I mean, we got a lot done.

Don't steamroll your way into a conversation before establishing any relational credibility.

The whole romanticized sad clown thing, we have to get rid of that. That has to go. That's just getting sick people to voluntarily stay sicker and sadder than they have to be.

How lucious lies the pea within the pod.

A man is what he does with his attention and mine is not for sale.

The Italians say that a beautiful woman by her smiles draws tears from our purse.

I had a date with an inflatable girl. Now I got an inflatable guy looking for me.

There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.