If the Good Lord made a mistake in us people it was in making us want to live when we’ve got the least excuse for it.

Then he laughed and she laughed. And quivering with the movement of the train, the dead man seemed to laugh too.

I'd been chasing females all my life, not paying no mind to the fact that whatever's got tail at one end has teeth at the other, and now I was getting chomped.

I ain't saying you're a liar, because that wouldn't be polite. But I'll tell you this, ma'am. If I loved liars, I'd hug you to death.

There is only one plot-things are not what they seem.

When life attains a crisis, man’s focus narrows. […] The world becomes a stage of immediate concern, swept free of illusion.

It doesn't matter what answers you get if you ask the wrong questions.