If I have something I like to forget, then I forget it.
See how special you are? I serve you coffee in the parlor.
I never get the girl. I wind up with a country instead.
They say that age kills the fire inside of a man, that he hears Death coming, he opens the door and says, "Come in, give me rest!" That is a pack of goddam lies.
On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience.
Having talent is like having blue eyes. You don't admire a man for the colour of his eyes. I admire a man for what he does with his talent.
I have lived in a flurry of images, but I will go out in a freeze frame.
Solitude is a courageous encounter with our naked, most raw and real self, in the presence of pure love.
The cowboy music twanged in the roadhouse and carried across the fields, all sadness. It was all right with me. I kissed my baby and we put out the lights.
Patriotism, or the peculiar relation of an individual to his country, is like the family instinct. In the child it is a blind devotion; in the man in intelligent love. The patriot perceives the claim made upon his country by the circumstances and time of her growth and power, and how God is to be served by using those opportunities of helping mankind. Therefore his country's honor is dear to him as his own, and he would as soon lie and steal himself as assist or excuse his country in a crime.
The only permanent rule in Calvinball is that you can never play it the same way twice! (Calvin)