It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun

Hey, Hank, I notice all the women around your place lately ... good looking stuff; you're doing all right." "Sam," I say, "that's not true; I am one of God's most lonely men.

The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

Oh, I don’t mean you’re handsome, not the way people think of handsome. Your face seems kind. But your eyes - they’re beautiful. They’re wild, crazy, like some animal peering out of a forest on fire.

Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge.

people are not good to each other. perhaps if they were our deaths would not be so sad.

too often, the only escape is sleep