It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?

Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away.

The world is always ending; the exact date depends on when you came into it.

I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father.

A man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime.

We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law!

Memory inevitably romanticizes, pressing reality to recede like pain.