The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.

Do you think that your fathers are watching? That they weigh you in their ledgerbook? Against what? There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground.

Every man's death is standing in for every other. And since death comes to all there is no way to abate the fear of it except to love the man who stands for us.

I look for the words, Professor. I look for the words because I believe that the words is the way to your heart.

One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.

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.

Dying ain't in people's plans, is it?