We all need new ideas, images, and experiences far more than we need new stoves or cars or computers.

People tend to criticize their spouse most loudly in the area where they themselves have the deepest emotional need.

You probably drink too much. If you hand me that bottle, I'll reduce your temptations. --Augustus "Gus" McCrae

It would be better if you began to teach others only after you yourself have learned something.

The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you're just boring.

Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.

No one knows what's next, but everybody does it.

The stories are most often about justice. In her stories, those who commit injustice, or act tyrannically, come to no good. They are punished.

What you don't realize as a kid is that if your parents are always going to be there for you, they aren't going to be somewhere else doing exciting and glamorous things.

Either what we hold to be right and good and true IS right and good and true, for all mankind, or we're just another robber tribe.

We travel because we do not know. We know that we do not know the best before we start. That is why we start. But we forget that we do not know the worst either. That is why we come back.