Father and son are natural enemies and each is happier and more secure in keeping it that way.

I have no choice of living or dying, you see, sir--but I do have a choice of how I do it. If I tell them not to fight, they will be sorry, but they will fight. If I tell them to fight, they will be glad, and I who am not a very brave man will have made them a little braver.

[He] fell right into the oldest conviction in the world-- that the girl you are in love with can't possibly be anything but true and honest.

I would like to sit still for a while but I'm restless you know and sitting still is only an ideal like celibacy and complete cleanliness.

Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.

A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was no need for a man.

We know what we got, and we don't care whether you know it or not.