Yet the motion of the saw has not faltered, as though it and the arm functioned in a tranquil conviction that rain was an illusion of the mind.

People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.

I am the chosen of the Lord, for who He loveth, so doeth He chastiseth. But I be durn if He dont take some curious ways to show it, seems like.

It's like it ain't so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.

It's like there was a fellow in every man that's done a-past the sanity or the insanity, that watches the sane and the insane doings of that man with the same horror and the same astonishment.

... a man aint so different from a horse or a mule, come long come short, except a mule or a horse has got a little more sense.

The ability for anyone in our generation to self-amuse has sadly been bred out of our species.

The amount of money you owe doesn't matter

that feeling that I could touch the sky? That’s exactly how you make me feel.” (Ray)

Bravery isn't brandishing a sword. It's standing your moral ground and letting others try their best to take you down.

I just like music. If it's hookey and good, I dig it.

I never thought I was cute, ever.

I don't pay attention to sales because it's not about that for me. It's about the music. Music is all I have.

Maybe that’s what love meant, both people thinking they were the lucky one.

There are no dead ends, just detours.

The more people know about an actor the less convincing they become. A bit of mystery's a good thing.