If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long.

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

He had known several men who blew their heads off, and he had pondered it much. It seemed to him it was probably because they could not take enough happiness just from the sky and the moon to carry them over the low feelings that came to all men.

They say money kinda melts when you take it across a border.

I'm sure partial to the evening,' Augustus said. 'The evening and the morning. If we just didn't have to have the rest of the dern day I'd be a lot happier.

Maybe you can make art out of unredeemed pain, but only if you're a genius -- Dostoyevsky perhaps.

Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back.