Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork.

He saw something that makes a man doubtful of the constancy of the realities outside himself. It was the shocking discovery that makes a man wonder if I've missed this, what else have I failed to see?

How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past?

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

Misfortune is a fact of nature acceptable to women, especially when it falls on other women.

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