Choice was dangerous: you had to forgo all other possibilities when you chose.

Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance

Sometimes, if she simply remained quiet, and let the inadequacy of his excuses reverberate on the air, he became ashamed and backtracked.

She seemed to think that one of the perks of marriage was that it gave you rights of comment and intrusion over single people's love lives.

He gave everything to everybody. Except to me.

He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human nature, nor to appreciate that behind every nondescript face lay a wild and unique hinterland like his own.

She was half running away from the hall, and she knew that she had done something cataclysmic, and she wanted nothing more than to be swallowed up by the darkness and to disappear forever.

Someone is always going to try to knock you down and take your place. It is up to you to fight for what you want.

Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.

I think I'm getting better at being verbal. I used to have a lot of problems with it. I had my own little demons that I was fighting, and I used the banjo as an escape.

We spend our lives on the run: we get up by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock, get up again, go to work - and then we retire. And what do they give us? A bloody clock.

The coyotes made too much noise last night and kept me awake. Please eradicate these annoying animals.

A pig resembles a saint in that he is more honored after death than during his lifetime.

Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.

The mind's pleasures are made to calm the tempests of the heart.

I am a fierce patriot, and I try to be outspoken about my beliefs.

Let yourself be the person you've secretly always wanted to be