Truth isn’t in accounts but in account-books.

The truth of anything at all doesn't lie in someone's account of it. It lies in all the small facts of the time. An advertisement in a paper, the sale of a house, the price of a ring.

Horse sense is the instinct that keeps horses from betting on men.

One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing.

Nothing great ever came out of common sense.

Most people's first books are their best anyways. It's the one they wanted most to write.

It was pleasant to talk shop again; to use that elliptical, allusive speech that one uses only with another of one's trade.

A man may own a ship, but unless he is captain of a crew he goes where the ship goes.

Weak people can be very stubborn.

The trouble with you, dear, is that you think an angel of the Lord as a creature with wings, whereas he is probably a scruffy little man with a bowler hat.

You can't have a tin can tied to your tail and go through life pretending it isn't there.

. . . she read with undifferentiated glee . . .

I'd rather change my dreams than live knowing four innocent men were in prison or hanged for a crime they didn't commit.

Any Christian whose interest is directed toward himself is worldly.

Everyone is terrified of death, as we spend our whole lives avoiding it.

I wasn't going to have fun doing a teen movie again.

Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.

I wonder how it is that people's philosophies have come to spin faster than the changing seasons.

Access to a school library results in more reading.

It is hard to deal with someone who smiles and pretends to like you to your face and sticks that eight inch blade in your back when you turn around.

There's five cameras, I don't know how many people in the audience... depending on where we're taping, there can be anywhere from 300 to 5,000 people, so the contestants are nervous