I dont know what happens to country.

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.

I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.

The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.

A goodlookin horse is like a goodlookin woman, he said. They're always more trouble than what they're worth. What a man needs is just one that will get the job done.

Finally he said that among men there was no such communion as among horses and the notion that men can be understood at all was probably an illusion.

By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker.

There was someone there and they had been there. There was no one there. There was someone there and they had been there and they had not left but there was no one there.

In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will.

A brick can be used to represent the zero probability of this book being any good.

No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

If there's any time you should be on drugs it's when you're pregnant, cause it sucks.

We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

There's a lot of ingredients go into being a good tennis player.

Recently an actor asked me to teach him how to speak fast. Wasn't I once criticised for speaking too fast? Now they're doing it my way.

Since I was the stupidest kid in my class, it never occurred to me to try and be perfect, so I've always been happy as a writer just to entertain myself. That's an easier place to start.

We were clever enough to turn a laundry list into poetry.

I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared.