Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.

Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.

I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go

Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.

There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings.

Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.

It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.

Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.

They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two.

I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death.

All I think of ever is that I love you.

His name was Rambo, and he was just some nothing kid for all anybody knew, standing by the pump of a gas station at the outskirts of Madison, Kentucky.

we should contract our ideas of education, and expect no more from it than it is able to perform.

Not purpose but chance is at the heart of mental life.

He hadn't loved me well in the end, but he'd loved me well when it mattered.

Ask yourself constantly, "What is the right thing to do?" Behave toward everyone as if receiving a great guest.

The point is, you see," said Ford, "that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later.

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Presidents have to learn how to adapt. Every president comes into the job, it's different than they expect, they must adapt.

There's only one thing in life for a woman; it's to be a mother... A woman artist must be... capable of making primary sacrifices.

We're not protecting the environment for the sake of the fishes and the birds. We're protecting it for our own sake.