Climbing is as close as we can come to flying.

We laughed the way that only people who carry each other back from Hell can laugh when they finally get a hunger for the future once again.

It is a distortion of the notion of romantic love to want to see obedience as the quintessential expression of respect.

Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.

Whatever way uncertainty is approached, probability is the only sound way to think about it.

God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defence.

The average American family head will be forced to do twenty years' labor to pay taxes in his or her lifetime.

Trouble can always be borne when it is shared.

When you're on a sleeper at night, take your pocketbook and put it in a sock under your pillow. That way, the next morning you won't forget your pocketbook cause you'll be looking for your sock.

I like playing misfits, I like playing oddballs, I like playing characters with rough edges.

The real hero must fail in order to succeed.