I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.

The first grave. Now we're getting someplace. Houses and children and graves, that's home, Tom. Those are the things that hold a man down.

Ever'body's askin' that. "What we comin' to?" Seems to me we don't never come to nothin'. Always on the way.

No one knows my ability the way I do. I am pushing against it all the time.

Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it.

Change was everywhere. People were gone, or changed, and that was almost like being gone.

[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.