There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on. Yet most people are stricken with fear. They fear failure so much that they fail. They are too conditioned, too used to being told what to do. It begins with the family, runs through school and goes into the business world.

and even the trees we walked under seemed less than trees and more like everything else.

It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.

I have no time for things that have no soul.

if you get married they think you're finished and if you are without a woman they think you're incomplete.

There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death.

The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little bit more off you, until there was nothing left.