“Why, God? You made man in your own image. Why then do so many lack good sense? And why is that we are so easily drawn to hate and kill each other? Why, God?”

“If you dont know history,you dont know anything.Edward Johnston”

“We got a saying around here about our corn, it grows knee-high by the Fourth of July.”

“As Ive been telling your, son, you get nowhere looking at clothes and the color of the skin to judge a man. It wont tell you nothing about whats inside. Thats where a fellows mettle is, and thats w...”

“You have to learn the difference between a mans looks, and how fine he shoots. Theyve never been one and the same.”

“Free men can easily become enslaved, if they let others do their thinking and talking, instead of using their own heads.”

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of wi...”

“My dear,Find what you love and let it kill you.Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.Let it kill you and let it devour your remains....”

“If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?”

“You live on in the wind that wraps around me to remind me of the absence of your embraceYou live on in her eyes, when she looks at me I see your faceYou live on in the moon that revives the light y...”

“Life in all its resiliency, beauty and strength is sometimes eclipsed by its unquestionable transient frailty. Today we are alivetomorrow is not promised. And it seems, the evil that lurks in the s...”

“Faade. One, simple word. But, very complex portents. Its like living a life of half-dead. You are neither fully inside a grave, nor completely out of it, beyond the oppressive calmness of the slabs...”

“Life goes on, whether you like it or not. I just wished it could lurch forward. Time is the best doctor, they say, and thats bullshit, because from certain pains you can never heal. They keep screa...”

“When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. Now the horizon is empty: the view has changed.”

“My heart was oaken before you set it on fire. It will continue to smolder, long after the flame that ignited it has gone.”