Our blood is the same, we just use it differently.

We can all of us be hurt, and no one is exclusively safe from worry and sadness.

Luck was something you either earned or invented through strength of character. You had to come by it honestly; you could not trick or bluff your way into it.

The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know.

I lay in the dark thinking about the difficulties of family, how crazy and crooked the stories of a bloodline can be.

Come with me into the world and reclaim your independence. You stand to gain so much, and riches are the least of it.

He is not bad, I don't think. Perhaps he is simply too lazy to be good.

I do not know what it was about that boy but just looking at him, even I wanted to clout him on the head. It was a head that invited violence.

Work will drive you crazy if you let it.

I sighed. ‘It doesn’t matter what we do. Money comes and goes.’ I shook my head. ‘It doesn’t matter and you know it doesn’t.

I will never be a leader of men, and neither do I want to be one, and neither do I want to be led. I thought: I want to lead only myself.

We all suffer under a curse, the curse that we know more than we can endure, and there is nothing, absolutely nothing we can do about the force and the lure of this knowledge.

A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.

We must rebuild organic communities, where people can come together and have analogue conversations and share stories, art, music and emotions.

You are lost because you have not been being honest with yourself, and your life is largely unexamined and unexerted.

Micro satellites, about the size of a loaf of bread, are going to be going into space more and more.

I love to swim for miles I could just go back and forth.

I think those autoworkers whose industry would have collapsed if the president hadn't intervened are certainly better off.

Water....I'm thirsty not dirty.

The good news is that a competitive dollar in the global market and a strong dollar at home are compatible in both the long run and during the transition to a more competitive dollar.

Coaches give you too much information. Ive been allowed to develop that intuitive ability in my career and lifetime.