The marquis stared at Richard, openly amused. "What a refreshing mind you have, young man, " he said. "There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there?

You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.

Give me boredom. At least I know where I'm going to eat and sleep tonight.

The thin girl was gulping down one of Richard's bananas in what was, Richard reflected, the least erotic display of banana-eating he had ever seen.

Until that moment she had never thought she could do it. Never thought she would be brave enough or scared enough, or desperate enough to dare.

What a refreshing mind you have, young man. There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there?

I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don't want to be sane.

Now me, ” said Mr. Vandemar.“What number am I thinking of?” “I beg your pardon?” “What number am I thinking of?” repeated Mr. Vandemar. “It’s between one and a lot, ” he added, helpfully.

The abbot cleared his throat. "You are all very stupid people, " he told them graciously, "and you do not know anything at all.

Sometimes there is nothing you can do.

I have always felt, ” he said, “that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats

Reading is the beginning of knowledge acquisition.

Me and Woody Harrelson, we're twins. We're the same person. I should only make movies with him.

Death is a confirmation of the believer's creed. For the skeptic it is discovery, immense and late.

Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.

This isn't a man who is leaving with his head between his legs.

The more I do, the more frightened I get. But that is essential. Otherwise why would I go on doing it?

As much time as you put into it, that's what your achievements are going to be when you come out of it.

Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.

Follow the argument wherever it leads.

All that is literature seeks to communicate power