Who's calling?""Don't insult me like that, " the voice says.I stop. Was I just insulting?

In a cement park across the street is this giant sculpture. It is a giant umbrella frame lying on its side. It's green. Stand under it, during a rainstorm, you'll still get wet - that's why it's art.

I left this conversation hours ago, but somehow my mouth is still moving, words are still forming, and none have seemed to offend. Amazing, the mind. My mind, I mean. Not hers.

He loves to hide, but only if you take the time to find him. And while I suspect that's true for most people, only a retard or a kid would admit it.

Wait a minute, I'm thinking, was this another one of those conversations where what is meant and what is being said are not the same thing?

Gilbert?"Some days I hate all those who know my name.

I never want to regret. 'Regret' is the ugliest word.

How can you kill a man who'd already been dead for years?

These eggs are broken. Cracked.""Yes, ma'am. That happens sometimes.""Does it?""Yes, it's the unfortunate part of being an egg.

The more Christian you are in this town, the more makeup you wear. I've always thought that it's because if you were to die suddenly, you'd look better for God.

I was seven when he hung himself, and I don't remember all that much, and anything I did remember, I've managed to forget.

The truest treasure is a soul who believes in its own existence

It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions. They have their place in heaven also.

There's nothing that America can't handle if we actually look squarely at the problem. ...Change depends on our actions.

There's a pervasive feeling that when somebody sings a song and records a song on a record, that it's their true feeling.

Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.

A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.

One good maxim to keep in mind, and I can't remember who said it, "You meet the same people on the way down that you meet on the way up, but you're going the other way."

When I was in N.Y. bartending, I was in a billion music videos. I was in Madonna, George Michael, Salt-n-Pepa - it goes on and on.

I'd like to date, but I'm not really in a position to meet girls.

Take a person’s memories, and you change who they are.