What do you believe? I believe that the last and the first suffer equally. Pari passu. Equally? It is not alone in the dark of death that all souls are one soul. Of what would you repent? Nothing. Nothing? One thing. I spoke with bitterness about my life and I said that I would take my own part against the slander of oblivion and against the monstrous facelessness of it and that I would stand a stone in the very void where all would read my name. Of that vanity I recant all.

I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.

I ain't got an original thought in my head. If it ain't got the scent of divinity to it, I ain't interested in it

I didn't mean I'd seen everything, John Grady said. I know you didn't. I just meant I'd seen some things I'd as soon not of. I know it. There's hard lessons in this world. What's the hardest? I dont know. Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back. Yessir.

He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.

If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.

We're carrying the fire.