The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren't.

The point is there ain't no point.

Word gets around when the circus comes to town, don't it?

But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse

Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.

Hell ain't half full.

When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.