Well, this is good for me, this is experience, I am here for a reason, these moments run into pages, the seamy side of life.

For your information, a good novel can change the world. Keep that in mind before you attempt to sit down at a typewriter. Never waste time on something you don't believe in yourself.

Almighty God, I am sorry I am now an atheist, but have You read Nietzsche?

If there is work there is warmth, that when a man has freedom of movement it is enough, for then his blood is hot too

Ask the dust on the road! Ask the Joshua trees standing alone where the Mojave begins. Ask them about Camilla Lopez, and they will whisper her name.

I felt his hot tears and the loneliness of man and the sweetness of all men and the aching haunting beauty of the living

Los Angeles, give me some of you! Los Angeles come to me the way I came to you, my feet over your streets, you pretty town I loved you so much, you sad flower in the sand, you pretty town!

When stuck, hit the road.

You are nobody, and I might have been somebody, and the road to each of us is love.

Arturo Bandini: -What does happiness mean to you Camilla? Camilla: -That you can fall in love with whoever you want to, and not feel ashamed of it.

Sick in my soul I tried to face the ordeal of seeking forgiveness. From whom? What God, what Christ? They were myths I once believed and now they were beliefs I felt were myths.

The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith.

Erase self-doubt by working to build your strengths instead of focusing on your weaknesses.

I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.

The future is itself a story, and predictions are stories we tell to amaze ourselves, to give hope to the desperate, to jolt the complacent.

There is NOTHING you can do with your running time that is better for you than running. Any other activity only pulls you down and erases passion.

Rooting for the Yankees is like owning a yacht.

I had a moment like that with Wilt (Chamberlain). He knocked me out of bounds, I came back and faked him, came across the middle and dunked on him.

Never be put off by your target's anger; it is a sure sign of enslavement.

The Democrats want corporations to shut down and move, because it allows them to tell you how rotten and mean corporations are.

The danger of what's happening right now in terms of using reconciliation is, the purpose of the Senate is going to be defeated. And that is to bring consensus to big issues in this country.