If one were to be a person of value that value could not be a condition subject to hazards of fortune. It had to be a quality that could not change. No matter what.

In dreams we stand in this great democracy of the possible and there we are right pilgrims indeed. There we go forth to meet what we shall meet.

Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.

Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.

It's not about knowing who you are. It's about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody's. You dont start over. That's what it's about. Every step you take is forever. You can't make it go away. None of it.

This country will kill you in a heartbeat and still people love it.

What joins men together ... is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.