“Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.”

“There was a beautiful feeling of calm in my groin, a sense of peace so remarkable it was almost ecstasyanyone who' suffered bad pain and then recovered will know what I'm talking about.”

“We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.”

“Then, for no reason I could tell you, I tossed the spool again, even though Elaine had asked me not to. Maybe only because, in a way, him chasing a spool was like old people having their slow and c...”

“About halfway through I broke down crying, which I hadn't expected. I was a little ashamed, but only a little;it was her, you see, and she never taxed me with the times that I slipped from the way ...”

“Time takes it all, whether you want it or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them th...”

“Denna is a wild thing," I explained. "Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your house, or breaks a tree, you don't say the storm was mean. It was cruel. It acted according to its na...”

“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”

“Cruelty and fear shake hands together. An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.”

“You need to take out the stuff thats just sitting there and doing nothing. No slackers allowed! All meat, no filler!”

“You need to take out the stuff that’s just sitting there and doing nothing. No slackers allowed! All meat, no filler!”