It's early yet. It's always early, while you still alive.

Folks think a lifetime is a thing stretched out over years. It ain't. It can happen quick as a match in a dark room.

To me, chocolate was the sole reason we on this earth.

I guess mercy is a muscle like any other. You got to exercise it, or it just cramp right up.

Ain't no glory made from being dependable.

It's like that, I guess, when the past come to collect what you owe.

What is luck but something made to run out.

Ain't no man can outrun his fate.

The kid come in at a strange angle, made the notes glitter like crystal.

Canada kills any conversation quick, I learned long ago. It's a little trick of mine.

Of all the excellent copyedits I've received over the years, Marie-Lynn Hammond's was by far the best. Her work on Half Blood Blues was incredibly sensitive and astute.

Preventing global warming from becoming a planetary catastrophe may take something even more drastic than renewable energy, superefficient urban design, and global carbon taxes.

If you don't deal with your shadows, you are condemned to repeat the same mistake over and over, as a human being or as a society.

Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not; and to believe in your own individuality.

[Donald] Trump has put forward a list of people he would like to see on the Supreme Court, whom the Kochs would be very happy with too. So it's not all bad for them.

I speak Mandarin and can read and write a little. I took a few classes at Harvard to get better in my reading and writing skills.

A towering theoretical achievement of exceptional elegance...Like most great books, Sociobiology is unpedantic, lucid, and eminently accessible.

It's hard to find female leads that are flawed and interesting and dynamic.

Dreaming was only nice while it lasted.

The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.

I'm one of those actors who likes to do it wrong nine ways before I come to the tenth way, which is the way I think it should be.