Life cannot be cut off quickly. One cannot be dead until the things he changed are dead. His effect is the only evidence of his life. While there remains even a plaintive memory, a person cannot be cut off, dead. And he thought, “It’s a long slow process for a human to die. We kill a cow, and it is dead as soon as the meat is eaten, but a man’s life dies as a commotion in a still pool dies, in little waves, spreading and growing back toward stillness.

Doc tips his hat to dogs as he drives by and the dogs look up and smile at him.

it was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials.

Maybe-- maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting. Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure-- never sure of her because you aren't sure of yourself?

We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.