The man who seeks revenge digs two graves.

I been away a long time.

When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.

It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down to your hips. Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

Because he knows you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy. He knows there's a painful side; he knows my thumb smarts and his girlfriend has a bruised breast and the doctor is losing his glasses, but he won't let the pain blot out the humor no more'n he'll let the humor blot out the pain.

The Haight is just a place; the '60s was a spirit.

The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery.