“I sing about life. I am happy, but life is sad.”

“It was something, what must go through men's mind where women were concerned, to cause them to behave so strangely.”

“They probably think the sun won't come up unless you're there to allow it.”

“Though loyal and able and brave, Pea had never displayed the slightest ability to learn from his experience, though his experience was considerable. Time and again he would walk up on the wrong sid...”

“Of all the women he knew, she had meant the most; and was the one person in his life he felt he had missed, in some ways.”

“It's just that it's fearsome for a man to have a woman start thinking right in front of him. It always leads to trouble.”

“They keep track of time. Sometimes things happen and you feel that you need to mark them down.”

“Does religious conviction provide a powerful reason for killing? Undeniably it often does. It also often provides the sole compelling reason for refusing to kill, or for being merciful, or for seek...”

“the past only had whatever power you gave it; life was what you made it and if you wanted something different from what you had, it was up to you to make it happen.”