William Moyers Quotes & Sayings

I kept waiting for something bigger, something more profound, something that I could hitch myself to and be carried away once and for all to the heaven-on-earth that I deserved. I kept struggling for control, which was really a demand for everything I wanted--peace, happiness, love, perfection--all at once, right now, and for all time. I wanted life to be perfect, always. And when it wasn't, which was most of the time, I got really anxious, and when I got anxious, I started thinking about how good it would feel to get high again. — William Moyers

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. — William Moyers

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

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 — William Moyers

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