After awhile you could get used to anything.

If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.

It is better to burn than to disappear.

I hope the dogs don't bark tonight. I always think it's mine

At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it.

To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing.

I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings.

Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there’s always something to be thankful for. And each morning, when the sky brightened and light began to flood my cell, I agreed with her.

How did I picture the life after the grave? I fairly bawled out at him: "A life in which I can remember this life on earth. That's all I want of it.

I didn’t like having to explain to them, so I just shut up, smoked a cigarette, and looked at the sea.

In the long run one gets used to anything.

It is better to fill your head with useless knowledge than no knowledge at all.

Happiness at any price is no happiness at all.

Most things look better from a distance...And as a matter of fact, so do most people. - The Spook, pg 435

You can lay in bed and think you don't stand a chance, that's what all of us thought, and here we are. We ended up doing all right.

I do my thinking while I walk. It just loosens up the mind in the way that you don't get when you are sitting at a desk.

Memory does not make films, it makes photographs.

I can't imagine living and not running.

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

Leave your yawns behind you and feel the tiny new breeze of life lighting up inside of you.

Every person is a new door to a different world.