Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin.

They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Death is the least civilized rite of passage.

What men call adventures usually consist of the stoical endurance of appalling daily misery.

You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. Its invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.

I don't pray. When I was young, I vowed I never would be caught begging God. If I want something I get it for myself. I go to church only to show the old hens they don't get me down.

All through my life I never did believe in human measurement. Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size. I know the grand scheme of the world is beyond our brains to fathom, so I don't try, just let it in.