...I knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted.

Mace, you never read Smoky the Cowhorse,did you? No. Well,ol' Smoky, he had somebad things happen to him,had the heart knocked clean out of him.But he hung on and came out of it okay.I've been bashed up pretty good,Mason, but I'm going to make it.

Even the most primite societies have an innate resepect for the insane.

...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.

Can you see the sunset real good on the West side? You can see it on the East side too.

Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.

All my life I wanted somebody who knew more than I did to tell me the truth.