I had thus learned to push down my feelings, to force myself to not care, to do nothing and let things happen, come what may.

You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.

When the anesthesia of love wears off, you suffer the pain of consequence.

everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death

There is a big difference between a tree and a wood! There is a big difference between a thinking society and an unthinking society!

Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.

This college would probably have the same problem as the last one did."I frowned, "What's that?""Homework.

If I wasn't a champion, I'd still be in jail. That makes me try very hard.

My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.

The doll, Dallas. You know, Barbie doll. Jeez, didn't you ever have dollies?" "Dolls are like small dead people. I have enough dead people, thanks.

Natural selection is all about the differential success of rival DNA in getting itself transmitted vertically in the species archives.

Morrissey was my Mrs. Garrett, the house mother from the Facts of Life, a soothing adult figure giving me words of wisdom.

Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.