People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that's not true. You're always better off living.

I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.

Looks like she's been slapping the kid again.

She seems to be having a pretty good time despite her worrying. That's Lily.

With what dope I got I think it fills me in pretty well.

It's awfully easy to be in love in jail.

I don't know much about him; never heard him say more than nope or yup.

I haven't any sort of plans for the future but I reckon things will work out in some manner.

I deserve all the love you can spare me. And I want a lot more than I deserve.

You got to look on the bright side, even if there ain't one.

Thanks for the information about what we call business.

The roof might fall in; anything could happen.

It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun.

I like women. I really like women.

Another man whose social life has ruined him.

Our lawyers had their chat with the Supreme Court Justice, and promised to repast the chat to other members of the Supreme Court to find out whether they wanted to hear us out.

Feed the lettuce to the bunny and eat the bunny.

Strictly speaking, there are no real substitutes for sexual satisfaction.

I have not killed anyone. They will not let me.

People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that's not true. You're always better off living.

She keeps trying and youve got to be careful or youll find yourself believing her not because she seems to be telling the truth but simply because youre tired of disbelieving her.

The cheaper the crook the gaudier the patter.

To get what he wanted a man had to give other people what they wanted.

He gave me what was probably meant to be a significant wink, but a corner of his mouth moved more than his eye did and the result was a fairly startling face.

When I was starting to get noticed as an actor in the 1970s for something other than the third cowboy on the right who ended up dying in every movie or episode, Burt Reynolds was the biggest star in the world.

With tens of thousands of patients dying every year from preventable medical errors, it is imperative that we embrace available technologies and drastically improve the way medical records are handled and processed.

The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.

As the winter set in with its customary Canadian severity the real trouble of the French began. They did not suffer from the cold, but they were dying of scurvy.

It's a technical, fairly difficult job that has no particular political connotations, so I doubt there are any big campaign contributors dying to be on the Fed. And remember, it doesn't pay very well, certainly by Republican standards.

Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Doesn't anyone here think this sounds like a vision of hell? While we are all competing or dying, when will there be time for sex or music or books? Stop the world, I want to get off.

Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.

I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me.

Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

I really connect with those moments of doing missionary work down there and just seeing the people that are dying from disease and hunger and malnutrition.

I always want to learn but I am sure on my dying day I will feel like I left something in the bucket.

Dying is easy; comedy is hard.

A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.

Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.

The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.

I am dying of hunger.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal.

Why should I be worried about dying? It's not going to happen in my lifetime!