You got to live before you can afford to die.

Men all do about the same thing when they wake up.

New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous. But there is one thing about it - once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.

Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Wherever they’s a cop beatin’ up a guy, I’ll be there. If Casy knowed, why, I’ll be in the way guys yell when they’re mad an’—I’ll be in the way kids laugh when they’re hungry n’ they know supper’s ready. An’ when our folks eat the stuff they raise an’ live in the houses they build—why, I’ll be there.

Texas has a tight cohesiveness perhaps stronger than any other section of America.

The candle aimed its spark of light at heaven, like an artist who consumes himself to become divine.

...no gift will ever buy back a man's love when you have removed his self-love.