Down in devil gate drive. I led the angel pack on the road to sin. Knock down the gates, let me in.
I stole their future from them; I can only being to repay by seeing what I can learn from their past.
In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.
Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.
The opposite of the happy ending is not actually the sad ending-the sad ending is sometimes the happy ending. The opposite of the happy ending is actually the unsatisfying ending.
I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.
All great economists are tall. There are two exceptions: John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman.
Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me. When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children. For aside from my evident inability to do anything "great," I have learned to regard fame as a will-o-the-wisp which, when caught, is not worth the possession; but to please a child is a sweet and lovely thing that warms one's heart and brings its own reward.
When I started to play with my fingernails, it was not just for volume. The most important thing was giving the guitar different colors in its voices.
Can it be of less consequence that the meaning of a Constitution should be fixed and known, than a meaning of a law should be so?