The human spirit was the strongest medicine on earth. And sometimes all it needed was a little encouragement to pull off a miracle.

Two people can care for each other but not want the same things.

Time doesn't really heal, it just makes you not to give a crap

It's my experience that most folk who ride trains could care less where they're going. For them it's the journey itself and the people they meet along the way. You see, at every stop this train makes, a little bit of America, a little bit of your country, gets on and says hello.

Pender laughed. "Verify? In this day and age? Who cares about verifying anything? It's all about the speed. Who gets there first defines the truth. You know that as well as any man living.

People have given me classified information, but always with the disclaimer 'This can never end up in a book.' And it never does.

Only I could drink a thousand drinks and never forget a damn thing. I would just remember every detail of the thousand drinks down to the shapes of the ice cubes.