Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.

She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.

When I was little there was a picture in one of our books, a dark place into which a single weak ray of light came slanting upon two faces lifted out of the shadow.

She clung to that which had robbed her, as people do.

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.