“Consider anything, only don’t cry!”

“Never cry over anything that can't cry over you”

“Crying wouldn't help anything now.”

“The trick to surviving an interrogation is patience. Don’t offer up anything. Don’t explain. Answer the question and only the question that is asked so you don’t accidentally put your head in a noose.”

“She used to cry roughly three times a year. Now she seemed to cry three times before breakfast. Could that be considered progress?”

“The man who reacts to the universe with a cry of impotent anguish is acceptable as an artist only if he can persuade us that he has sanely considered the other possible reactions and found them inadequate.”

“I learn from my own daughter that you don’t have to be awake to cry.”

“We don’t believe anything we don’t want to believe.”

“Americans are simple people with simple interests – The only time they sincerely ask “why” about anything is when they don’t receive their paychecks.”

“I don’t want to be anything special. I only want to try to be true to that in me which seeks to fulfill its promise.”