If you treat a sick child as an adult and a sick adult as a child, it usually works out pretty well.

How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.

Nobody asks to be a hero, it just sometimes turns out that way.

I got my best foot forward onto greener grass, cause there ain't no future living in the past.

Excited. In a good way. I've been training my whole life for this.

No one gets left behind, you know that.

Do me a favor, okay? Tell my parents that I fought well today. And tell them that I... that I... that I fought hard.

She was a music I no longer heard, that rang in my mind, itself and nothing else, lost to all sense, but not perished, not perished.

A spoon does not know whether it enters a rich or poor man's mouth.

I go the way that Providence dictates with the assurance of a sleepwalker.

Obviously, there is pleasure in the execution of any sort of art, and using language, as Nabokov felt also, is an exquisite process.

In southern Spain, they made me eat a bull's testicles. They were really garlicky, which I don't like. I prefer to take a bull by the horns, not by, um...

The East is a montage. It is old and it is young, very green in summer, very white in winter, gregarious, withdrawn and at once both sophisticated and provincial.

Nations and empires flourish and decay, By turns command, and in their turns obey.

Men forget everything; women remember everything. That's why men need instant replay in sports. They've already forgotten what's happened.

Ease, a neutral state between pain and pleasure ... if it is not rising into pleasure will be falling towards pain.

If I had all the money in the world, I'd be like, "Great, let's just keep doing it!" I, unfortunately, have not won the lottery or found the magic genie lamp.