The terrible price of living, ain’t it? To live through others dying?

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.

In my experience, stress is the cause of all injury and pain.

It is the human habit to think in centuries from a grandparent to a grandchild because it just does take about a hundred years for things to cease to have the same meaning as they did before,

Even though I’m pro-globalization, I have to say thank God for the anti-globalization movement. They’re putting important issues on the agenda.

The Bible's emphasis is on the good treatment of animals, and not just the forbidding of cruel treatment.

New Zealand totally rejects Japan's proposals to double the number of whales slaughtered in the Southern Ocean

I would have painted the White House black. I would have!

You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car.

Wealth is the means, and people are the ends. All our material riches will avail us little if we do not use them to expand the opportunities of our people.

If I were in politics, and if you ever get me in the White House, trust me, there's a big change coming. What happened to America? We lost our roots.

Charisma is not just saying hello. It's dropping what you're doing to say hello.