With knowledge there is no hope,... without hope I would sit motionless, rusting like unused armor.

I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it. Is there a check in men, deep in them, that stops or punishes? There doesn't seem to be. The only punishment is for failure. In effect no crime is committed unless a criminal is caught.

I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog.

The ways of sin are curious . . . I guess if a man had to shuck off everything he had, inside and out, he'd manage to hide a few little sins somewhere for his own discomfort. They're the last things we'll give up.

There is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter.

The lies we tell about our duty and our purposes, the meaningless words of science and philosophy, are walls that topple before a bewildered little ‘why’.