Then he laughed and she laughed. And quivering with the movement of the train, the dead man seemed to laugh too.

I kissed her, a long hard kiss. Because baby didn't know it, but baby was dead, and in a way I couldn't have loved her more.

There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.

There are thirty-two ways to write a story, and I’ve used every one, but there is only one plot – things are not as they seem.

When life attains a crisis, man’s focus narrows. […] The world becomes a stage of immediate concern, swept free of illusion.

You've got forever; and somehow you can't do much with it. You've got forever; and it's a mile wide and an inch deep and full of alligators.

I'd been chasing females all my life, not paying no mind to the fact that whatever's got tail at one end has teeth at the other, and now I was getting chomped.

I found out long ago that the place where the law is apt to be abused the most is right around a courthouse.

If the Good Lord made a mistake in us people it was in making us want to live when we’ve got the least excuse for it.

A weed is a plant out of place.

I ain't saying you're a liar, because that wouldn't be polite. But I'll tell you this, ma'am. If I loved liars, I'd hug you to death.

God doesn't bless us just to make us happy

Love in action puts a mind at ease. It creates wonders and good feelings. Such is the magic word that when you allow it to flow freely, it awakens every human heart, and uplifts every human spirit.

When you choose a Guru you become a follower. When your Guru chooses you, you become a disciple

Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.

No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone

Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.

You can't possibly spend a lifetime with anybody and know them.

I think that the idea of family is a very powerful and influential and disjointed thing that will always captivate me.

It’s much easier not to know things sometimes.

Happiness, sadness, loss and gain all pass away. What they do to us is what remains.