"Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything"

“I'd learned that some things are best kept secret.”

“It is a brave and stupid thing, a beautiful thing, to waste one's life for love.”

Source : "Mind/Body Problems" by John Updike, www.newyorker.com. January 26, 2004.

“To withhold our bodies from religion is to exclude religion from our lives.”

“The solid waste is returned to Earth with the shuttle. If we [astronauts] ever dump solid waste overboard, it's going to give new meaning to wishing upon a falling star.”

“Ireland is where strange tales begin and happy endings are possible.”

“Rules help govern and steer a relationship along, so they're good things. But they become bad things when they become the narrow gate though which the relationship must always pass. When this happens, the rules become the basis for the relationship and, in a sense, become a substitute for the relationship.”

“Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want.”

Source : "Justice For Sale". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. February 19, 2010.

“You really expose yourself when you try and go to up the volume and up the size of your performance.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com