The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have the power to wake it.

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.

A goodlookin horse is like a goodlookin woman, he said. They're always more trouble than what they're worth. What a man needs is just one that will get the job done.

The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren't.

The one thing I can tell you is that you wont survive for yourself. I know because I would never have come this far. A person who had no one would be well advised to cobble together some passable ghost. Breathe it into being and coax it along with words of love. Offer it each phantom crumb and shield it from harm with your body. As for me my only hope is for eternal nothingness and I hope it with all my heart.

In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments.

He didn't say a lot so I tend to remember what he did say. And I don't remember that he had a lot of patience with havin to say things twice so I learned to listen the first time.