Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

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.

Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.

I'm one of the world's greatest pencil sharpeners.

Mick Jagger moves like a parody between a majorette girl and Fred Astaire.

Shoot, boy, the country's just fulla folks what knows everything, and don't understand nothing, just fullofem.

It was the most haunting room I've ever seen. Because you know what's in it? All the left­overs, all the paraphernalia that the different condemned men had had with them in the "holding" cells.