The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them.

Dolls with no little girls around to mind them were sort of creepy under any conditions.

Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.

What do you really want to know? Am I sorry for what I did? There's not a day goes by I don't feel regret. Not because I'm in here, but because you think I should be. I look back on the way I was. A young, stupid kid that committed that terrible crime. I want to talk to him. I want to try to talk some sense to him. Tell him the way things are. But I can't. That kid's long gone, and this old man is all that's left.

My view is that organized religion is a very dangerous tool that's been misused by a lot of people.

My friend wants to get moving and so do I,' Eddie said. 'We've got miles to go yet.' I know that. It's on your face, son. Like a scar.' Eddie was fascinated by the idea of duty and ka as something that left a mark, something that might look like decoration to one eye and disfigurement to another. Outside, thunder cracked and lightning flashed.

I do have one slightly crooked wheel upstairs, but everything else is ticking along just four-o, thank you very much.