The only things you can ever truly own cannot be bought with money.

A man who can laugh at himself is truly blessed, for he will never lack for amusement.

History is a story of violence at work. It all comes down to the old saw that, however much you can gain with a kind word, you can gain more with a kind word and a gun.

If the devil ever raised a garden, the Everglades was it.

The greatest tragedy that can befall a man is never to know who he really is.

Violence is the most elemental truth of life. It's the central shaper of history, the ultimate determiner of whether A or B is going to get his way.

He would know a number of grown women in his life who did not possess even a small portion of the grace his middle sister owned at the age of fourteen.

Some of us are always in the borderlands no matter where we might be on the map.

History is a record of human nature in action.

Pride has traditionally been regarded as the foremost of the Seven Deadly Sins, but it has rather obviously been overtaken by Greed.

There's an old saying, " Buck said. "A hundred things can go wrong in a holdup, and if you can think of fifty of them you're a damn genius.

Gansey always thought that, after dark, it felt like anything could happen. At night, Henrietta felt like magic, and at night, magic felt like it might be a terrible thing.

My worst hair experience was when I was trying to relax my hair and my grandmother did it. It went all straight and I looked like a black Bee Gee.

I had never engaged in remote multishrink psychoanalysis on this scale before, so it was a fascinating experience.

"What place would you advise me to visit now?" he asked. "The planet Earth," replied the geographer. "It has a good reputation."

Catch several hares and you won't catch one.

A lot of actors flame out.

I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it.

I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that.

I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.

Nature never deserts the wise and pure; no plot so narrow, be but nature there; no waste so vacant, but may well employ each faculty of sense, and keep the heart awake to love and beauty.