Time, the spaces of light and dark, had long since lost orderliness.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.

I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.

Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.

ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crises with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.

Memory believes before knowing remembers.[Light in August]

It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate.

When it's a matter of not-do, I reckon a man can trust himself for advice. But when it comes to a matter of doing, I reckon a fellow had better listen to all the advice he can get.

It is the man who all his life has been self-convicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.

Riding that ridge between reason and recklessness, stillness and speed, is the first, maybe the most important, thing I learned about motorcycles.

If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.

Grandma's house had the atmosphere of a Tupperware box left out in the sun. Like a tropical flower, she had to be kept warm and moist at all times, or she would wilt and die.

Your eyes should never be lent to the devil

Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.

Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.

We need to have a bigger and more significant role for national parliaments. There is not, in my view, a single European demos.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

We have a good opportunity to be good parents right now.

You have to ask yourself, 'Who owns me? Do I own myself or am I just another piece of government property?'