We're not punished for our sins, lad. We're punished by them.

Because beautiful things never last. Not roses nor snow… And not fireworks, either

Meet me where the sky touches the sea. Wait for me where the world begins.

Why is it that weeks and months and years go by so quickly, all in a blur, but moments last forever?

I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse thing to let a promise break you.

Yeah. Sure. My brother's dead. My mother's insame. Hey, let's have a crepe.

Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.

For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.

History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about the past.

Together in our house, in the firelight, we are the world made small.

Hope is the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard.

Because their example is powerful, they're somewhat responsible for the weaklings who copy them.

If anybody ran a business like that they would be out of business quickly, and Barack Obama's leadership is driving this business, the United States of America, toward a fiscal cliff.

The end of a dissolute life is most commonly a desperate death.

I drive myself to and from work. I love the privacy.

It's not your job to get people to like you, it's your job to like people.

In the private arena, you can do whatever you wish, and people do. These crazy evangelical preachers get on the radio and TV and say incredible things.

It is an open secret that Jews do not work, but rather let others work for them.

Thoughts - even fears - were airy things, formless until you made them solid with your voice and once given that weight, they could crush you.

So much alarmed that she is quite alarming

The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.