His idea of how the country was doing had been determined by the size of the butts he picked up off the sidewalk.
Women are fools; they will marry anything that has a heartbeat just to have a man.
I don’t know. I just feel all wicky-wacky. I’m just thrown for a loop and back. I can’t even think about what to do.
It’s kind of funny, really, all these years, everybody has been so busy trying to figure what life was all about, and all the while, it was just something for us to enjoy.
You think people are some kind of pure, white feathered birds flying in the clouds. They’re not. They’re pigs and they love to wallow in the mud and dirt.
There are magnificent beings on this earth, son, that are walking around posing as humans. And I don’t ever want you to forget that. You hear me?
Well, they are trying to get rid of Christianity and once they do that, then you watch. Our taxes will go up and they’ll take all our guns away and the next thing you know, a communist or a socialist will get in the White House and then it will be all over.
Oswald welcomed the cooler weather because in the following days he discovered it brought winter sunsets, and the river sunsets were different from anything else he had ever seen. They mesmerized him.
Every woman wants to get married and have children.
In the movies, it was always the bad guys that got killed, and the good guys lived happily forever.
Your mother formed an incorrect opinion of you and, naturally, you agreed with her. Children always think their parents are right. But in this case, your mother was entirely wrong.
She had no interest in love. Love had taken her in the back room and beaten her up pretty badly.
You cain’t dwell on sadness, oh, it’ll make you sick faster than anything in this world.
No, tesoro, credo ancora in Dio. E’ solo la parte su Adamo e Eva che mi fa sorgere un interrogativo.
Can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life?’ Luke 12:25.
With the last of the sun fading, he could see the reflection of the green lights on the docks across the way and the stars twinkling in the river like small diamonds. What a show. This was better than any movie he had ever seen, and it was different every night. It was so wonderful at times he felt he wanted to do something about it, to try and stop time, make it last longer, but he didn’t know what to do.
Oh, I know a lot of people struggle, wondering is there really a God. They sit and think and worry over it all their life. The good Lord had to make smart people but I don’t think he did them any favors because it seems the smart ones start questioning things from the get go. But I never did. I’m one of the lucky ones. I thank God every night, my brain is just perfect for me, not too dumb, not too bright.
And when you wonder where I am, just look up at the sun and that’s where I’ll be.
She knew that being in love all by yourself was the loneliest, most painful experience known to man – or woman – and there was nothing she could do to help him.
They always wanted too much from her, something she could not give. She had told him over and over she would not marry him or ever live with him. But, typical of most men, they always believed she didn’t really mean what she said and would change her mind. She never did. Why did they always have to push her into a corner and get so upset? She didn’t want to live with anybody. She liked being alone. She hated anybody grabbing at her, trying to smother her.