War don't ennoble men, it turns 'em into dogs. It poisons the soul.

That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.

The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.

If I never meet you In this life Let me feel the lack A glance from your eyes Then my life Will be yours

The little bit you and me might change the world," Malloy smiled, "it wouldnt show up until a hundred years after we were dead. We'd never see it." "But it'd be there.

If I never meet you In this lifeLet me feel the lackA glance from your eyesThen my life Will be yours

I write to reach eternity

All Welsh knew was that he was scared shitless, and at the same time was afflicted with a choking gorge of anger that any social coercion existed in the world which could force him to be here.

The boy Prewitt loved the songs because they gave him something, a first hint that pain might not be pointless if you could only turn it into something.

Every man has a right to kill himself.

It did not last long. It is only in the movies that knife fighters stab and miss and slash and miss and tussle over several city blocks.

Current utility and historical origin are different subjects.

The dimple in his left cheek was ironic-it gave the impression that he was sweet as a cupcake. (Dark City Lights)

In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.

There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness.

Every moment gives birth to the next moment and influences it. Getting out of that chain of perpetual being is getting off the wheel of birth and death. That is enlightenment.

I tell you, there are more worlds, and more doors to them, than you will think of in many years!

In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life.

Love perseveres. It's men who change.

Mom's always know how to make us happy, but they also know exactly how to make us cry.

One of the most meaningful things we can do as parents is teach our children the power of prayer, not just the routine of prayer.