The more profoundly we study this wonderful book [the Bible], and the more closely we observe its divine precept, the better citizens we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation.
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
We dreamed a lot of good stuff. Marriage and forever and ever and that kind of thing. It meant everything to me. Not just a lot. Everything.
I am willing to take life as a game of chess in which the first rules are not open to discussion. No one asks why the knight is allowed his eccentric hop, why the castle may only go straight and the bishop obliquely. These things are to be accepted, ...
Fools commit suicide and think they're doing themselves a favor.
[asked if his suicide attempt was a cry for help] No. I told no one. You only cry for help if you believe that there's help to cry for.
The tragedy of life is that sometimes we get what we want.
I write to escape. I haven't managed it yet, but I'm working on it
The job of the writer is to take a close and uncomfortable look at the world they inhabit, the world we all inhabit, and the job of the novel is to make the corpse stink.
We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
To write simply is as difficult as to be good.
we do not write as we want but as we can
Through all of youth I was looking for you without knowing what I was looking for
When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.
If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.
I don't really believe in regrets.
Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.
I'm better off working as opposed to lying around.
All of our early hits, 'Danke Schoen' and 'Red Roses,' were produced by Bobby Darin.
Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
