Why did everything always change when all you wanted, all you had ever humbly asked of whatever God there might be, was that certain things be allowed to stay the same?

It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.

if you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want

And do you know a funny thing? I'm almost fifty years old and I've never understood anything in my whole life.

if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.

He couldn't even tell whether he was angry or contrite, whether it was forgiveness he wanted or the power to forgive.

Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It’s the inability to relate to another human being. It’s the inability to love.

No one forgets the truth; they just get better at lying.

You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.

Never say anything that doesn't improve on silence.

If my work has a theme, I suspect it is a simple one: that most human beings are inescapably alone, and therein lies their tragedy.

The most difficult thing for a wise woman to do is to pretend to be a foolish one.

Initiative without action is the same as having the mind to acknowledge a problem, but not having the heart to see it through.

If proof were the standard of truth, fallacies would constitute the ultimate reality.

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

India lends itself well to fictionalization, but ultimately, it all depends on the writer's imagination.

And takin' a bath in the creek. That's the stuff that really made it worthwhile. Anybody can stay in a motel.

It's easier to make a reporter into an economist than an economist into a reporter.

It's always been a dream of mine to get somewhere and to have my mom and dad with me up there.

A lot of my time was spent searching, thinking and planning my life.

You're the cutest thing that I ever did see I really love your peaches, wanna shake your tree