I always started a job with the feeling that I'd soon quit or be fired, and this gave ma a relaxex manner that was mistaken for intelligence or some secret power.

I pretend to understand because I don't want anybody to be hurt

Keep your money in your pocket. Or bet it on a good horse.

My flesh looked like it wasn't trying. It looked like it hated being part of me.

That's what friendship means: sharing the prejudice of experience.

Death is nothing, brother, it's life that's hard

There may not be a hell, but those who judge may create one. I think people are over-taught. They are over-taught everything. You have to find out by what happens to you, how you will react. I'll have to use a strange term here... "good." I don't know where it comes from, but I feel that there's an ultimate strain of goodness born in each of us. I don't believe in God, but I believe in this "goodness" like a tube running through our bodies. It can be nurtured. It's always magic, when on a freeway packed with traffic, a stranger makes room for you to change lanes... it gives you hope.