ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crises with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.

I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.

Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.

Time, the spaces of light and dark, had long since lost orderliness.

Memory believes before knowing remembers.[Light in August]

It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate.

When it's a matter of not-do, I reckon a man can trust himself for advice. But when it comes to a matter of doing, I reckon a fellow had better listen to all the advice he can get.

It is the man who all his life has been self-convicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.

Sometimes you have to trust grownups, perhaps more so when they are not there to actually supervise you.

The values of commodities are directly as the times of labour employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the labour employed.

Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

The electricity is back on in Baghdad. That is a very climactic moment in any country's liberation, when the lights come back on and you get a good look at what you looted.

You don't get out of life what you want. You get out of life who you are.

To live an extraordinary life, you must resist an ordinary approach.

Hypnotically haunting sounds from a true artist that dares to dream.

Talent is a very potent aphrodisiac. When someone is incredibly gifted, I find them incredibly sexy.

Some wounds grow worse beneath the surgeon's hand; Better that they were not touched at all.

Emotional roller coasters tend to emphasize the lows, tend to be more affected by the low, by the dip in an emotional roller coaster than when you are at the peak.