A mountain you're plannin' on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty.

Pain is strong, aye - but friends' eyes, more strong." I told him that he knows next to nothing about me & I know nothing about him. He jabbed at his eyes & jabbed at mine, as if that single gesture were ample explanation.

People b'lief the world is built so an tellin em it ain't so caves the roofs on their heads'n'maybe yours.

Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.

We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing.

The music provokes a sharp longing the music soothes.

If war's first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency.