Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.

Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.

When a condition or a problem becomes too great, humans have the protection of not thinking about it. But it goes inward and minces up with a lot of other things already there and what comes out is discontent and uneasiness, guilt and a compulsion to get something--anything--before it is all gone.

I know a little bit about a great many things and not enough about any one to make a living in these times.

There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.

I like a lot of talk in a book and I don't like to have nobody tell me what the guy that's talking looks like. I want to figure out what he looks like from the way he talks.

I guess I'm trying to say, Grab anything that goes by. It may not come around again.