Quotes by Beck

“HAMM:Scoundrel! Why did you engender me?NAGG:I didn't know.HAMM:What? What didn't you know?NAGG:That it'd be you.(Pause.)”

“When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping to go in a straight line.”

“He thought of the virtues of courage and forbearance, which become flabby when there is nothing to use them on.”

“You’re his normality. You’re a part of him, and he is a part of you. That’s what makes this frightening, but that’s what makes it right.”

“Love isn't all sparks and firecrackers. Sometimes it’s more subtle than that.”

“He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.”

“Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.”

“He comes with those in his employ, to watch, gathering evidence and confession. His success speaks of a countryside rife with evil, an intemperate plague of witches . . .”

“They come with cold bones in heavy boots. See how they tremble. The folly of man . . .”

“There’s a passage in John Steinbeck’s “East of Eden” that does a pretty good job describing California’s rainfall patterns:The water came in a 30-year cycle. There would be five to six wet and wond...”

“In March the soft rains continued, and each storm waited courteously until its predecessor sunk beneath the ground.”

“Ghosts could walk freely tonight, without fear of the disbelief of men; for this night was haunted, and it would be an insensitive man who did not know it.”

“Maybe he thought I would run then. Maybe he thought I would be done. But I had been hurt before. I think he underestimated my ability to pick myself up and keep going. Done? Far from it.”

“We have too quickly bought into the lie that we’ll be happier with more—and as a result, too often miss the joy that comes from owning less.”

“That's why I'm talking to you. You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect.”

“Money's easy to make if it's money you want. But with few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration.”

“Poets are the sense, philosophers­­ the intelligence­­ of humanity.”

“And as a few strokes on the nose will make a puppy head shy, so a few rebuffs will make a boy shy all over. But whereas a puppy will cringe away or roll on its back, groveling, a little boy may cov...”

“Please try not to need me. That’s the worst bait of all to a lonely man.”

“What about an amnesiac, who awakes having lost his memories and must learn of his past from scratch? Has he died? How can we be just memories? How does that leave us with enough?”