I give you soul. I give you wisdom and light and music and a bit of laughter. Also, I am the world's greatest horseplayer.

people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's great. an Academy Award means that you don't stink quite as much as your cousin.

people are not good to each other. perhaps if they were our deaths would not be so sad.

Well, we lost it, and that’s all there is to that.

Sweet Christ, you must know that a man will go further for any poem than for any woman ever born.

If you let them kill you, they will

it seemed to me that I had never met another person on earth as discouraging to my happiness as my father. and it appeared that I had the same effect upon him.