Analysis destroys wholes. Some things, magic things, are meant to stay whole. If you look at their pieces, they go away.

- Robert James Waller

The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out but I'm glad I had them.

- Robert James Waller

There are songs that come free from the blue-eyed grass, from the dust of a thousand country roads. This is one of them.

- Robert James Waller

The overriding problem with our country, and our world in general, is that we are, in large part, managed by incompetents. Most of these are men who …

- Robert James Waller

We have both lost ourselves and created something else, something that exists only as an interlacing of the two of us.

- Robert James Waller

And in that moment, everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman, yet I was more myself than eve…

- Robert James Waller

In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, and never again, no matter how many lifetimes you live.

- Robert James Waller

This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime!

- Robert James Waller

And I remember most of what I know that is good and true and lasting has come not from scholars but from minstrels and gypsies.

- Robert James Waller