What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

No one invites you to the top - you have to claw your way up. When you get there, you will sit with the others who were also uninvited - giggling.

And you'd think that killing people would make them like you, but it doesn't. It just- it just makes them dead.

... ancient days of sorrowancient days of pain-heartaches of the pastslowly began to wane ...(from gleaning granules)

I had become a perfect fake human, saying the stupid and pointless things that humans say to each other all day long.

I have falling in love with reading.

You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear.

Language is a very complicated thing, and that's one of the reasons why I like making photographs.

I am completely and utterly hooked to all the great shows on A&E and Court TV that are about small town murder.

You have to be able to look back at your life and say, "Yeah, that was fun."

Technique is everything and we play a contact sport.