“Just you think first, and don’t bother to speak afterward, either.”

“Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.”

“That was the real price, I thought. Once you had power, you ended up having to depend on it. Eventually, like anything else, it owned you.
Eventually? No, from the beginning; we just don’t bother admitting it at first.”

“Poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response.”

“You are not really bothered by what others think of you. You are bothered by what you think of yourself.”

“O men! be just Give aid first and counsel afterwards.”

“A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks.”

“That’s how it goes within a family. You think you know each other so well, and so you don’t bother hardly getting to know each other at all.”

“Life was messy. Always had been and always would be and that was just the way it was, so why bother complaining? You either did something about it or you didn’t, and then you lived with the choice you made.”

“Honey, you need to get laid. (Selena)
Why don’t you speak a little louder, Lanie? I don’t think the guys in Canada were able to hear you. (Grace)
Oh, I don’t know. They’re probably headed south even as we speak. (Waiter)”