That's the trouble with you preachers, " he said. "You've all got too good to believe in anything, " and he drove off with a look of disgust and righteousness.

In yourself right now is all the place you've got.

Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it

It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes.

...free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply.

If you want to get anywhere in religion, you got to keep it sweet.

That belief in Christ is to some a matter of life and death has been a stumbling block for readers who would prefer to think it a matter of no great consequence.

Hazel Motes sat at a forward angel on the green plush train seat, looking one minute at the window as if he might want to jump out of it, and the next down the aisle at the other end of the car.

He had a winning smile and it was evident that he didn't think he was any better than anybody else even though he was.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.

Read properly, fewer books than a hundred would suffice for a liberal education. Read superficially, the British Museum Library might still leave the student a barbarian.

Vodka Redbull: Upper meets downer in an effervescent hybrid of bubble gum and junkie piss

Speak not through the positive mind or the negative mind, but from the neutral mind.

You're not going to get any true confessions out of me," she said. "I'm a Leo, and our thing is changing the subject.

They determined who got the first question by a coin toss, to which Sarah Palin said, 'Oh, what a coincidence, that's how I got picked.'

So mayst thou live, dear! many years, In all the bliss that life endears

We have no Common Vipers in the United States, but we have worse.