"Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives."

“A soul you say? Give my pocketwatch to a savage and he'll think it has a soul.”

“Sometimes I just want to sit and write at a clean table and not get paint all over my hands.”

Source : "Wild Horses, William Burroughs And White Cake With Danny Fox". Interview With Christiana Spens, thequietus.com. September 22, 2013.

“My best teachers, the teachers who had the deepest effect on my reading, combined the two. They would mix required reading with reading where you had some choice, you had some autonomy. There's a place for both. A good teacher will know how to find that balance.”

Source : Source: www.hbook.com

“Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.”

Source : "What I've Learned: Alan Arkin" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. February 25, 2007.

“The language of love may be universal, but it's not one of the options on an ATM machine.”

“Heaven will ask things of you at some point, perhaps small things at first. You must be ready.”

“I feel like the world stopped. And I got off...and then it started spinning again, but too fast for me to hop back on. I feel like I'm still trying to get a...to get some kind of foothold on living”

Source : Jacqueline Woodson (2006). “Behind You”, p.42, Penguin

“I'd forgotten it's an important thing to give thought to your morality and how you intend to live your life.”