I still don't even know if the sheriff will let me see him. And suppose he did; what then? What do I say to him? Do I know what a man is? Do I know how a man is supposed to die? I'm still trying to find out how a man should live. Am I supposed to tell someone how to die who has never lived?
Ernest GainesNietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.
Ernest GainesHow do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? Who made them God?
Ernest Gaines