I have fallen in love with American names, The sharp names that never get fat, The snakeskin-titles of mining-claims, The plumed war-bonnet of Medicine Hat, Tucson and Deadwood and Lost Mule Flat.

Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Dreaming men are haunted men.

Life is not lost by dying! Life is lost, Minute by minute, day by dragging day, In all the thousand, small, uncaring ways...

Remember that when you say "I will have non of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange," you have denied America with that word.

Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you might die of the truth.

Broad-streeted Richmond . . . The trees in the streets are old trees used to living with people, Family trees that remember your grandfather's name.

I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names that never get fat.

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Spirituality is not about being fixed

Dare to reach beyond the stars.

Scotch whisky is made from barley and the morning dew on angel's nipples.

One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.

Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!

Our acts our angels are, for good or ill, our fatal shadows that walk by us still.

I'll say it loud and say it proud. I'm completely insane.

I don't think somebody can just, like, wave a magic wand and make you a star.

Christians don't believe that goodness gets you to heaven. Christians believe it's exhausting to rely on your own goodness to please God.