51 quotes found
“A person can't change all at once.”
“Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.”
“Help us to be true, Lord. Help us to stand.”
“His name is Legion. He is the king of nowhere.”
“Call me Richard. Thats my real name. Call me that.”
“You couldn't not like someone who liked the guitar.”
“Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear”
“Maybe he sells fear because he's got nothing else to sell.”
“The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.”
“The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head with oil. He gives me kung-fu in the face of my enemies. Amen”
“That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.”
“A man who loves money is a bastard, someone to be hated. A man who can't take care of it is a fool. You don't hate him, but you got to pity him.”
“Do you think... do you think people ever learn anything?”
“Theres always a choice. Thats Gods way, always will be. Your will is still free. Do as you will. Theres no set of leg-irons on you. But... this is what God wants of you.”
“It don't matter if you believe in God Nick, he believes in you.”
“She was satisfied with the answer God had given Moses from the burning bush when Moses had seen fit to question. Who are you? Mose asks, and God comes back from that bush just as pert as you like: ...”
“Dreams are a simple psychological emetic, and people who have them are more blessed than cursed”
“Women's lib, Frannie had decided, was nothing more nor less than an outgrowth of the technological society. Women were at the mercy of their bodies. They were smaller. They tended to be weaker. A m...”
“He was a poet who sometimes taught Free University classes or travelled in the western states of Utah, Nevada, and Arizona, speaking to high school English classes, stunning middle-class boys and g...”
“For Gods sake, Larry, grow up. Develop a little self-righteousness. A lot of that is an ugly thing, God knows, but a little applied over all your scruples is an absolute necessity! It is to the sou...”
“Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build...”
“Who gets to be best-liked in any community? Who is the most trusted? Why, the man who does the dirty job, of course, and does it with a smile. The man who does the job you couldn't bring yourself t...”
“And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're inside.”
“Men who find themselves late are never sure. They are all the things the civics books tell us the good citizen should be: partisans but never zealots, respectors of the facts which attend each situ...”
