Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes.

I couldn't help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for--to find out how much a man could take without breaking.

It's the emptiest and yet the fullest of all human messages: 'Good-bye.

He did not think of himself as a writer for the simple reason that the world had never allowed him to think of himself in this way.

You know what truth is? [...] It's some crazy thing my neighbor believes. If I want to make friends with him, I ask him what he believes. He tells me, and I say, "Yeah, yeah - ain't it the truth?

Music makes practically everybody fonder of life than he or she would be without it.

George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography.