I'm not sure Lincoln would fare well if he were a presidential candidate today.
They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist.
If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.
If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
. . . Jess believed, that she thought he was the best. It was not the kind of best that counted either at school or at home, but it was a genuine kind of best. He kept the knowledge of it buried inside himself like a pirate treasure. He was rich, very rich, but no one could know about it for now except his fellow outlaw, Julia Edmunds.
To one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.
Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.
Look, isn't there any way you can just stamp me as not crazy and let me get outta here.