Good quotes

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

I've gone for each type: the rough guy the nerdy, sweet, lovable guy and the slick guy. I don't really have a type. Men in general are a good thing.

As soon as you concern yourself with the 'good' and 'bad' of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weaken and defeat you.

Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist - whatever.

Any good music must be an innovation.

I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.

A friend is always good to have, but a lover's kiss is better than angels raining down on me.

It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.

A good husband makes a good wife.

Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.

I'd rather do a really good small part than a really bad big part.

To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.

I'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

I enjoy life when things are happening. I don't care if it's good things or bad things. That means you're alive.

A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I'm crepuscular.