If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
There is no God and we are his prophets.
The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?
The rain falls upon the just And also on the unjust fellas But mostly it falls upon the just Cause the unjust have the just’s umbrellas.
A dream inside a dream might not be a dream.
For even if you should have stood your ground, he said, yet what ground was it?
I guess if everybody went crazy together nobody would notice.
It would take a hell of a wife to beat no wife at all.
Each the others world entire.
He can give me what you cannot. Death is not a lover. Oh yes, he is.
In every trade save war men of talent and vigor prosper. In war they die.
For the poor any choice was a gift with two faces.
There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
The world could only be known as it existed in men’s hearts. For while it seemed a place which contained men it was in reality a place contained within them.
One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
My daddy used to tell me not to chew on something that was eatin you.