It is just as much an offense to take offense as it is to give offense.

Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.

But if they don't exist, how can a man see them?

There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy.

You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.

Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.

But the rest are even scared to open up and laugh. You know, that's the first thing that got me about this place, that there wasn't anybody laughing. I haven't heard a real laugh since I came through that door, do you know that? Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.