We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don't know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.

To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.

...It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.

She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.

We shall not kill and maybe next time we even won't.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.