Ain’t no good ever comes of it, if you ain’t steering yourself.

I appreciate your thinking on me, marshal, but ain’t no trouble of his what ain’t trouble of mine, too.

But wasn’t time for what was. Was time to settle up the future.

Maybe I’d lost something. Maybe I’d lost a lot—more, even, than I could suffer—but I still had my own self. And lonesome as I might be, wasn’t no force on Earth or from above what could make me less.

But tell you true, I honestly didn’t think nothing about the Green Man beefing that posse. Was just men and the world’s full of them.

wasn’t no bit of me willing to ride shotgun to my own funeral.

Was like the Green Man said, some you got to put to the bullet. Some to the tongue. Often the latter, with me. But some, you just got to put behind you.

Was still between Martha and Jane, then, I was. Between the girl I was and who I wanted to be.

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

what I like and what I need’s two different things.

Can’t count on no miracles. Sometimes, you just got to have a plan.

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

I’ve lowered my character with a great deal of unwholesome reading material.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

But ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put.

Life is not what you wish it to be, rather it’s what you make it.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

I think that rap is narrative, when it's done right.

I wasn't tempted to have my private parts decorated.

Leadership is seeing the possibilities in a situation while others are seeing the limitations.

The Universe is inevitable. The Universe is impossible