What smells good in the store may stink in the stewpot.

Then he laughed and she laughed. And quivering with the movement of the train, the dead man seemed to laugh too.

I kissed her, a long hard kiss. Because baby didn't know it, but baby was dead, and in a way I couldn't have loved her more.

There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.

There are thirty-two ways to write a story, and I’ve used every one, but there is only one plot – things are not as they seem.

When life attains a crisis, man’s focus narrows. […] The world becomes a stage of immediate concern, swept free of illusion.

You've got forever; and somehow you can't do much with it. You've got forever; and it's a mile wide and an inch deep and full of alligators.

I'd been chasing females all my life, not paying no mind to the fact that whatever's got tail at one end has teeth at the other, and now I was getting chomped.

I found out long ago that the place where the law is apt to be abused the most is right around a courthouse.

If the Good Lord made a mistake in us people it was in making us want to live when we’ve got the least excuse for it.

A weed is a plant out of place.

Politics organizes our lives. We can't disregard it. Politics has lot of muck, lot of dirt. But that doesn't mean you have to be away from it. It's ubiquitous.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

Confusion and mistakes come when we forget the importance of God's word as our unwavering guide.

Well, you can go on looking forward," said Gandalf. "There may be many unexpected feasts ahead of you.

If I even imagined someone talking to my husband too close, I would beat the crap out of them.

It is painful for me to see when criminal elements of all kinds fire from my weapon.

Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around.

I'm going to be dead for a long time, so I have a lot to do now.

We have always been thinking about different ways to perform electronic music, i.e. music made with machines.

Remember, tomorrow is promised to no one.