The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.

If you are in love-that's a good thing-that's about the best thing that can happen to anyone.

When you know a friend is there you do not go to see him. Then he's gone and you blast your conscience to shreds that you did not see him.

I carry a gun cause a cop is too heavy.

Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess.

But you can't start over Only a boy can start over You and me Why, we're all that's been

Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.