And in the dream I knew that he was goin on ahead and that he was fixin to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And then I woke up.

It may be that the life I desire for her no longer even exists, yet I know what she does not. That there is nothing to lose.

He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his doing.

He believed in God even if he was doubtful of men's claims to know God's mind. But that a God unable to forgive was no God at all.

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.

Scared money can’t win and a worried man can’t love.