It must be a hard thing to kill a man you don't know and don't hate.

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’.

...men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything lovable about them.

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

He never fell, never slipped back, never flew.

[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.

All we got is the family unbroke.