We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.

We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long.

There was a beautiful feeling of calm in my groin, a sense of peace so remarkable it was almost ecstasy——anyone who' suffered bad pain and then recovered will know what I'm talking about.

The person healed has an obligation to then ask why— to meditate on God's will, and the extraordinary lengths to which God has gone to realize His will.

Like some dogs: kick them once and they never trust you again, no matter how nice you are to them.

What our parents tell us when we are small seldom goes ignored, no matter how foolish it may be

That— we seemed to have decided without saying a word— might go a long way toward spoiling something that was special, and beautiful, by virtue of its strangeness and delicacy.

It would not do to tell other people, not just because they wouldn't believe but because they wouldn't care.

He was nothing but a conduit, after all, and there isn't a culvert in the world that remembers the water flowed through it once the rain has stopped.

It was sweet and lovely, that smile, perhaps the more so because it wasn’t complicated by much in the way of thought.

I had try to tell the difference between the night and the day and how the night was better unless the day was very clean and cold and I could not tell it

A successful man never allows his faulty of discrimination and judgement to be distributed by the rising tides of his emotions.

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

'It is my duty to warn you that it will be used against you,' cried the Inspector, with the magnificent fair play of the British criminal law.

It is the art of mankind to polish the world, and every one who works is scrubbing in some part.

The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.

I'm very friendly or whatever, but I would hardly say that I'm that cookie-cutter. I don't live in L.A. or New York. I live in Texas, and I go to hole-in-the-wall bars, so there's no paparazzi there.

In rain during a dark night, enter that darkness.

There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?