John Grady looked at the table. The paper cat stepped thin and slant among the shapes of cats thereon. He looked up again. Yessir, he said. Just me and him.

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.

I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.

The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.

A goodlookin horse is like a goodlookin woman, he said. They're always more trouble than what they're worth. What a man needs is just one that will get the job done.

Finally he said that among men there was no such communion as among horses and the notion that men can be understood at all was probably an illusion.

By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker.

There was someone there and they had been there. There was no one there. There was someone there and they had been there and they had not left but there was no one there.

In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will.

The idea that sins can be forgiven is at the root of mankind's problems. Everyone pays...sooner or later.

Make sure that you intentionally bring out results and positive products and the world will celebrate you.

I was cranked to a fifth gear, and everything I did, I did on a deadline.

Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.

When he comes back, I'm sticking to him like moss to a stone. You're going to have to cut me off with a knife to get us separated.

Time's stern tide, with cold Oblivion's wave, Shall soon dissolve each fair, each fading charm.

I feel like if I'm not going to change the game or do something innovative, then I'm not motivated.

Everything is stuck together. People are stuck together. They can't change. Ideas are stuck together - they're irrevocable. We think that the end of the universe is as far as the telescope can see.

I was thinking about dying the other day the death thought came while I was sitting on the toilet peeing - that's where I have my most contemplative thoughts.

Lovers needn't always agree, anymore than poetry need always rhyme.