Trust, a sense of humor, and don't let the sun go down on an argument without trying to make it up. That's all I know about good marriage. I've been married a long time - it seems to be working.

We never cease wanting what we want, whether it's good for us or not.

Definition of a wanderer: a guy who's always looking beyond.

Everyone needs a hobby, he said. And everyone needs a miracle or two, just to prove life is more than just one long trudge from the cradle to the grave.

Sooner or later everything you thought you'd left behind comes around again. For good or ill, it comes around again.

...they came to see what happened to their town, to see if it was indeed lying burnt and bleeding. Many of them also came to die.

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