Ain’t nothing scarier than someone with nothing.

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.

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

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.

Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking.

To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us.

I hope you will excuse my being late. The person in this organization who gave me directions here has obviously heard me speak before.

A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.

The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.

Sentimentalists are they who seek to enjoy without incurring the Immense Debtorship for a thing done.

If it were possible to take interest rates into negative territory I would be voting for that.

Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me.

We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.