“I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.”

You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.

Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.

The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.

The better the actor, the more stupid he is.

They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurance of our identities?

The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.

Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.

It’s a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.

The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.

I can see every monster as they come in.

Reading dreams. That’s what started her walking down the road. Every day she’d walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.

Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.

Are the dead as lonesome as the living?

I am a pastor, and I teach and preach the Bible to my congregation every week. But the Bible is not a manufacturer’s handbook.

Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. .

Tonight Illinois has set a tone for the nation, that we won’t stand idle hoping that our economy improves.

A bad day for the ego is a good day for the soul.

Researchers tell us that we have about sixty thousand thoughts a day.

Put your attention on happiness by practicing the Happiness Habits each day.

If you want to do something that requires willpower – like going for a run after work – you have to conserve your willpower muscle during the day.

It’s what we see every day in the magazines, on billboards and even on television.