When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy.

It took me a long time to learn that mistakes aren't good or bad, they're just mistakes, and you clean them up and go on.

You’ll find your one-in-a-million. But you’re sharp enough to know there’s no point in sludging through the first nine hundred, ninety-nine thousand, and ninety-nine to get to him.

I read about writers' lives with the fascination of one slowing down to get a good look at an automobile accident.

I am a great believer in variations on the routine.

Have you ever felt like you could cry because you know you just heard the most important thing anybody in the world could have spoke at that second?

Mothers smell blood before the wound is given. We see the rent place on the child's arm before the arrow strikes.

But they get some comfort out of the made up stories. And if that helps them get along maybe I should not poke fun.

Folks do not want to see a body disappear before their very eyes. Not me at least.

Oh, it's no crime to want and need somebody to love and to be loved by and to go and do what you need to do to have that, but its certainly a pity when you want it so badly you'll let it be anybody.

Life is a reality.

A dream can be remarkable and alluring, that is why I chase it hoping that one day something good would happen!

Beyond highways and roads, we need more money for mass transit, intercity passenger rail and freight rail. We have a long way to go to bridge the funding gaps.

Science is different to all other systems of thought because you dont need faith in it, you can check that it works.

Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.

How did we go bankrupt? Two ways. Slowly, and then all of a sudden.

everyone old enough to have a secret is entitled to have some place to keep it.

I have put my whole soul into this work [The Pathetique Symphony] . . . You cannot imagine what joy I feel at the thought that my days are not yet over and that I may still accomplish much.

Gentle to others, to himself severe.

Our blood don't run. Sometimes we want to. Sometimes we ought to. But we don't ever run from anyone or anything.