7 Quotes by William Cope Moyers

But what really matters is what's under the hood, and without continued attention to routine maintenance and repairs, it isn't long before the same old engine spoils the new ride.

How could a father smoke crack when he's supposed to be taking care of his newborn child?

I almost wish I had cancer. Then I’d either beat it or die from it. But my disease, even if successfully treated, will never go away. And it might not kill me. But it will hang over me like the blade of a guillotine; more threatening inert than if the blade suddenly slips and mercifully turns out my lights. This is my war to end all wars.

The city was waking up to another day. I hadn't slept or changed my clothes in six days.

The test of a mans character is not the mistakes he makes but the way he responds to them.

It’s funny, in a human kind of way, how we can convince ourselves that we’re in control at the very moment we are beginning to lose it.

Besides, the angels lived in heaven forever and that was a long time, so I imagined things got boring up there after a while. It was scary to think about living forever with nothing to do.