... she had painted her lips and was holding in her hollowed hands a beautiful, banal, Eden-red apple.

It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.

Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses.

I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.

I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.

Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.

Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece

You have to be an artist and a madman...

I discovered there was an endless source of robust enjoyment in trifling with psychiatrists.

For some reason, I kept seeing it—it trembled and silkily glowed on my damp retina—a radiant child of twelve, sitting on a threshold, "pinging" pebbles at an empty can.

I had possessed her - and she never knew it.

All of us in the church need “grace-healed eyes” to see the potential in others for the same grace that God has so lavishly bestowed on us.

Life is but a short and fevered rehearsal for a concert we cannot stay to give.

I will stand against those who see terrorism when Americans die, but who see suicide bombers who kill Israelis and believe that that is just part of the negotiating process.

... he that will live in this World, must be endu'd with the three rare Qualities of Dissimulation, Equivocation, and mental Reservation.

As a newcomer, I was often expected to carry the bags of the older players, or get them burgers. That can make you feel pretty miserable.

I put every ounce of myself into my work, but also it's important that I don't miss every single wedding of my best friends.

And you don't want to just totally mess up the rhythm when you're playing with Bob Dylan.

If you focus on goals, you may hit goals - but that doesn't guarantee growth. If you focus on growth, you will grow and always hit goals.

Perhaps my number one rule is: Don't try to make a profit on a bad trade, just try to find the best place to get out.

Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence.