The Lord took twice the time making thee, Alvin Smith, cause it took that long to put the mischief in.

What a waste of time to be posthumously famous.

Where loyalty bound creatures together, they became something larger, something new and whole and inexplicable.

A man always assumes that others are as virtuous as himself

The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.

If he was a good man, how could he leave me? So he must not be a good man. But if he isn't good, then why does it hurt so much to lose him?

There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger.