Q: What is wrong with the world?A: Everybody pays attention to pictures of things. Nobody pays attention to things themselves.

I hear he liked flowers pretty well.""Yes, " said Annie, "he said they were the friends who always came back and never disappointed him."--"Out, Brief Candle

As I spoke of another's love and looked into the wide, blue windows of her soul, a rich, insistent yearning flooded my senses.--"Tango

They made a science out of people?" she said. "What a crazy science that must be."--"Mr. Z

We had been younger. Yup, you can grow a lot in the blink of an eye.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.

I've never really had a relationship with Hollywood. I've never had a desire to work there.

Young love needs dangers and barriers to nourish it.

Life is a thump ripe melon, so sweet and such a mess.

Jesus Christ is in every way sufficient to the vast desires of the soul.

…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.

I majored in geology in college but have majored in Herbert Hoover ever since.

Ideas have consequences.

I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.