The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.

I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.

Girls: I never wanted them all. Just all the ones I wanted.

Preacher to me: 'A dollar for the Lord, brother?' Me to preacher: 'That's all right, I'm headed his way. I'll give it to him when I see him.'

You can't belay a man who's falling in love.

What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most.

This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.