You're making sense, old man, a sense of your own. You're not crazy the way they think. Yes...I see...

Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.

The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it.

They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.

But he won’t let the pain blot out the humor no more’n he’ll let the humor blot out the pain.

He's the sort of guy that gets a laugh out of people.

You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it might be, or you could relax and lose yourself

It's the truth, even if it didn't happen......if they don't exist, how can a man see them?

The stars up close to the moon were pale they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of the circle of light ruled by the giant moon

I don't seem able to get it straight in my mind....

Sometimes we just need to be heard… There are times in life when being heard leads to being healed.

River water and talent can’t be stopped forever.

Man's real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books

Think twice before you speak to a friend in need

I feel like when I went back to my original hair color, a little bit of an edgier side came out.

When I became political and Communist, it was because they were the only people I had ever met who fought the color bar in their lives.

The blessing of life as a wholecan never be found in work.

America is a country born from semi-mythologized blood, glory and acts of selfless patriotic sacrifice.

When I'm at home in Virginia, I become more hermit-like. I like my own home.

A rule should suit the purpose.