Some day...as you grow older, you will find imagination sometimes produces a truth that is greater than any fact.

That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.

The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.

War don't ennoble men, it turns 'em into dogs. It poisons the soul.

If I never meet you In this life Let me feel the lack A glance from your eyes Then my life Will be yours

The little bit you and me might change the world," Malloy smiled, "it wouldnt show up until a hundred years after we were dead. We'd never see it." "But it'd be there.

If I never meet you In this lifeLet me feel the lackA glance from your eyesThen my life Will be yours

I write to reach eternity

All Welsh knew was that he was scared shitless, and at the same time was afflicted with a choking gorge of anger that any social coercion existed in the world which could force him to be here.

The boy Prewitt loved the songs because they gave him something, a first hint that pain might not be pointless if you could only turn it into something.

Every man has a right to kill himself.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

A strategic victory seen as luck by laymen.

The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.

Because I killed a guy in real life, and because my character kills a guy onstage, they said I could never do anything this great again. I resented that.

Less is more only when more is too much.

May Heaven to this Union continue its beneficence

We are His greatest handiwork even though we are still a work in progress.

It's not like I listened to music and then stopped. I still don't have a real appreciation for music because I didn't really start listening to it until my 20s.

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment.