This is your first and final chance, your one and only biography.

People went through life like well handled jugs, collecting chips and scrapes and stains from wear and tear, from holding and pouring life.

You’ve been wondering lately when the moment is that somebody is truly lost to you.

Those partial to drink were hiding faults and dishonesty. They were sloppy souls, even the ones with pleasant manners and fine noses.

Of all the conditions we experience, solitude is perhaps the most misunderstood.

I don't like novels that tie everything up in a plot-y way. I always think that's not really true of life, particularly of people in power.

I'll tell you this, lad: A tattoo says more of a fellow looking at it than it can do of the man who's got it on his back.

The man had added to his body in a way that was brave and timeless and beyond adornment.

You didn’t understand what he was saying, until he kissed you. It was a kiss of such complicity, of such uncomplicated sympathy, that you felt for the first time not alone in your suffering.

All innocent mechanisms are muddied up with experience. Children become less and less translucent. Layers of guile and suspicion grow. It's the law of paternal disenchantments.

A month in and it seemed to CY that he was an explorer summiting the foothill of an a bizarre and primitive island.

If we desire our souls to be sanctify, we shall hunger for the Truth.

Cherish the others in your life. Cherish your freedom to be yourself. Cherish your freedom to choose who you want to be, what you want to do next.

The more you look, the less you see.

I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician. I think it's very upfront. I am a doctor. I have long experience with heart disease.

What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.

If the choice is between buying another building or a Pollock, I'd go for the Pollock every time.

For behavior, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another.

I think the Republicans have really thoughtful financial policies, and I'm more in the middle on taxation.

I find that the British audience listens and they accept the performer for its value, value as a singer, as a vocalist, value as a performer. You're only accepted if you're good.

But hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity.