people in general are totally unable to detach the personality of a writer from the products of his thinking.

A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.

When a wave of love takes over a human being... such an exaltation takes him that he knows he has put his finger on the pulse of the great secret and the great answer.

We cannot live without the Earth or apart from it, and something is shrivelled in a man's heart when he turns away from it and concerns himself only with the affairs of men

I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.

A woman never forgets the men she could have had; a man, the women he couldn't

It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed but not bought. It may be used but not owned. We are tenants, not possessors, lovers and not masters.

Fear is the most easily taught of all lessons, and the fight against terror, real or imagined, is perhaps the history of man's mind.

Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to time.

Ants in the house seem to be, not intruders, but the owners.

Readers themselves, I think, contribute to a book. They add their own imaginations, and it is as though the writer only gave them something to work on, and they did the rest.

If you had hope, maybe you could find a way to make things change, . Because if you thought about it, there were so many reasons to try.

There is the will of the people

The best thing Jay-Z ever taught me was patience.

This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate.

You have no idea what it is to have anybody wonderful fond of you, unless you have been got down and rolled upon by the lonely feelings that I have mentioned as having once got the better of me.

I've always been a player and a person who wanted to be the best at whatever he did.

I'm not good at hiding my feelings. I'm also not good at lying. I'm very open about everything.

I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.

Paul Ryan's just a really, deeply evil little creature. But he's not little; he's actually quite tall, I'm sorry to see. I'm always sorry when really bad guys are tall.

It's certainly true that most of my close friends are Jewish.