Lastly he looked at the face so caved and drawn among the folds of funeral cloth, the yellowed moustache, the eyelids paper thin. That was not sleeping. That was not sleeping.

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.

I couldn't care less about evidence and proof and assurances. I just want God. I want God inside me. I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on water.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

Are you in a desert? Then be a camel! Be compatible with the reality!

I'm trying to figure out precisely which character flaw might be responsible for my latest life failure.

Misery needs your conspiracy; it needs your help. Without your resistance misery cannot survive.

Often, you'll fail. But, as my mother also taught me, failure isn't the opposite of success - it's a stepping stone to success.

I am too sick to lay down the sidewalks frighten me the whole damned city frightens me, what I will become what I have become frightens me.

Just as important, we need a new dedication to opening avenues for employee participation and motivation through profit-sharing and innovative programs of job enrichment.

Houses are not haunted. We are haunted, and regardless of the architecture with which we surround ourselves, our ghosts stay with us until we ourselves are ghosts.