Unless you're a hairdresser, you can't have a ponytail and call yourself Kenny when you're forty. Not in Michigan, anyway.
I didn't know that once you've proven yourself useful to the wrong people, you'll never be free again.
Understand our situation.
You touch a safe the way you touch a woman, he
I’ll out-quiet anybody, in any venue for any stakes.
Nobody is safe. Ever. Anywhere. I
I’ve noticed how most people don’t know how to listen.
Promise you that, mister!
This could be your big ticket, he said. You know what happens to you at art school?I shook my head.All that good natural technique you have? All that detail? They’ll beat it right out of you. They’ll...
It was a lesson I had taken most of my life to learn. Sometimes you have to let things go.
No patience. No skill. No intelligence. Just brute strength. They have to break something. It’s the only way they know.
It’s not nearly far enough if you’ve already become famous for something you want to forget forever.
Whoever's job it was to keep the room clean was clearly not an overachiever.
Somewhere in the ocean, a shark was missing its cold eyes because this man had them.
So there it was. My big lesson of the day, something I’d take with me and never forget. The whole legal system – if you think it’s just a big set of rules, you’re dead wrong. It’s really a bunch of pe...
Once you freeze all the way through to your soul, you will never feel warm again.
I'm the undisputed champion of keeping my mouth shut and just sitting there like a piece of furniture.
Said. Now that he’s found me again. Or he’d come himself. . . . Maria, why don’t you just sign away the full partnership money? Tell him you’ll take the twenty percent and forfeit the rest? She looked...
The greatest puzzle in the world, young man, the greatest challenge a man can face, is solving the riddle of a woman's heart.
He made that same turn down that same road. The train station loomed above us. Here's where time slows down for me. It stretches out like a long rubber band, and every single event is stretched out wi...