The narrator welcomes new students to his school by offering to tell them who the easy teachers are, or who the good ones are.

I was trying to unravel the complicated trigonometry of the radical thought that silence could make up the greatest lie ever told.

The tide was a poem that only time could create, and I watched it stream and brim and makes its steady dash homeward, to the ocean.

Great romantics are granted lots of slack.

Help them, but don't make friends with them.

I take account of my life and find that I have lived a lot and learned very little.

You must appreciate beauty for it to endure.

One must always forgive another's passion.

I've always admired people who give accurate directions, and the tribe is small.

You're going to act like a happy man. I know, I know. It's the hardest role in the world.

I was born in the age of "alas".

Some give the impression they go on living only because it's a habit they cannot shake

There's no such thing as nothing. In every nothing, there's a something. In fact, there could be everything!

As I get older... I start to realize that life ain't half bad. Each year, I'm amazed that I'm still alive. I don't take any of this for granted, I'm a lucky dude.

Barack Obama is incompetent. All he wants to do is campaign, and the last thing he wants to happen is to have Donald Trump terminate Obamacare.

No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.

I can see myself wanting to write a historical novel - you don't need to worry about references to reality TV or pop music, you can just get on with the basics of story and character.

I think the NBA players have to be held accountable in a reasonable way, just like any other professionals.

Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.

For me, clothing is nothing without the story behind it. Everything I own evokes some kind of memory.

The function of the artist is to organize the facets of life according to his imagination.