Fat lot of good we are," said Ralph. "Three blind mice.

If a thing be really good, it can be shown to be such.

Because he had a good agent, he had a good contract. Because he had a good contract, he was in Singapore an hour after the explosion. Most of him, anyway.

Things away from home often look better than they are.

Sitting at the table during Color Purple and looking up and suddenly realizing I was acting in front of Steven Spielberg, was pretty cool. It was pretty good.

He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires.

For only that which we knew and practiced at age 15 will one day constitute our attraction. And one thing, therefore, can never be made good: having neglected to run away from home.

Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed; an architectural one, where it is constructed; and finally, a textile one, where it is woven.

Nothing sounds better than being away from this mess. Nothing sounds better right now than getting higher than the hole I'm in.

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

What nuns don’t realize is that they look better in nun clothes than in J. C. Penney pantsuits.

In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.

To use a horse to show that a horse is not a horse is not as good as using a non-horse to show that a horse is not a horse...

The door can never be closed for good to any player.

I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it.

“I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.”

“Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing.”

“Your words, O Hares! are good; but they lack both claws and teeth such as we have.”

“No arguments will give courage to the coward.”

“There can be no good fable with human beings in it. There can be no good fairy tale without them.”

“Better no rule than cruel rule.”

“It is absurd to ape our betters.”

“When by an increase in the effectual demand, the market price of some particular commodity happens to rise a good deal above the natural price, those who employ their stocks in supplying that market are generally careful to conceal this change.”

“How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.”