Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.

in dreams it is often the case that the greatest extravagances seem bereft of their power to astonish and the most improbable chimeras seem commonplace.

By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker.

People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they don't deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things.

Peering down into the water where the morning sun fashioned wheels of light, coronets fanwise in which lay trapped each twig, each grain of sediment, long flakes and blades of light in the dusty water sliding away like optic strobes where motes sifted and spun.

For even if you should have stood your ground, he said, yet what ground was it?

Well, I guess in all honesty I would have to say that I never knew nor did I ever hear of anybody that money didnt change.