Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.

Everything that happens before Death is what counts.

Good to evil seems evil

God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.

First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys.

He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never so secret again in life.

..holding a book but reading the empty spaces.

But no man's a hero to himself.

Beware the autumn people

It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow.

The dust was antique spice, burnt maple leaves, a prickling blue that teemed and sifted to earth. Swarming its own shadows, the dust filtered over the tents.

The highest form of wisdom is often hidden in simplicity.

If Stalin could only see us now, with the American Ambassador here, he'd turn in his grave.

Obedience is the road to freedom, humility the road to pleasure, unity the road to personality.

Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need.

I'm loyal and I think most Texans are very loyal, but I'm also stubborn.

Other filmmakers make their movies and put them out and that's that. For me, for some odd reason, it goes deeper than that.

The last laugh, the last cup of coffee, the last sunset, the last time you jump through a sprinkler, or eat an ice-cream cone, or stick your tongue out to catch a snowflake. You just don't know.

It is better to underpromise and overdeliver than vice versa. For this one need not break the law of the land.

The most stylish country in the world is Italy.

For some people, home is family and their mom's house or their girl or whatever, and I have those experiences as well, but the biggest thing for me is Chicago. I don't know how to explain it.