“Seems a lot of men never saw one such as me. A girl what could keep up and fight and ride and curse with the best of them. A girl what aint trapped in some dress or some house or some bed. A girl w...”

“But wasnt time for what was. Was time to settle up the future.”

“I appreciate your thinking on me, marshal, but aint no trouble of his what aint trouble of mine, too.”

“Was Jane now. All Jane. Come calamity or come calm, was myself and none else.”

“And in the silence what followed, I reckon our eyes had some long conversation our mouths couldve never talked through. Some long, looking talk about things gone and long since said. About cries ou...”

“Maybe Id lost something. Maybe Id lost a lotmore, even, than I could sufferbut I still had my own self. And lonesome as I might be, wasnt no force on Earth or from above what could make me less.”

“We go from one war to another; we go from one terrorist group to another and we go from one calamity to another, but there is a pattern there if you know where to look.It's amazing how when one war...”

“If you can defeat your own calamity, you will be a hope for others and thus you can defeat the calamity of others too!”

“Perhaps that is why desire causes men calamity. By identifying with our desires and taking them too seriously, we not only increase our susceptibility to disappointment, we actually create a climat...”

“We look before and after,And pine for what is not;Our sincerest laughterWith some pain is fraught;Our sweetest songs are those that tell Of saddest thought.”

“I know why we laugh. We laugh because it hurts, and it's the only thing to make it stop hurting.”

“MARCUS ANDRONICUS: Now is a time to storm; why art thou still?TITUS ANDRONICUS: Ha, ha, ha!MARCUS ANDRONICUS: Why dost thou laugh? it fits not with this hour.TITUS ANDRONICUS: Why, I have not anoth...”