They probably think the sun won't come up unless you're there to allow it.

I sing about life. I am happy, but life is sad.

It was something, what must go through men's mind where women were concerned, to cause them to behave so strangely.

You should marry me", he said. "I will be good to you. I am not like these men. I have manners. You would see how kind I would be. I would never leave you. You could have an easy life.

He liked to get off by himself, a mile or so from camp, and listen to the country, not the men.

It was something he had always done - moved apart, so he could be alone and think things or a little.

He ought to let the past keep its glow and not try to mix it with what he had in the present.

It's funny, leaving a place, ain't it?" he said. "You never do know when you'll get back.

It's just that it's fearsome for a man to have a woman start thinking right in front of him. It always leads to trouble.

The crimes the law can understand are not the worst crimes.

She had a beautiful face, a beautiful body, but also a distance in her such as he had never met a woman.

My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I've been doing this for twelve years.

The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky.

I like flesh. I do! Something to hold.

I can't imagine laying a finger on my kids. I go the other way and probably because my father was so abusive.

I came in on the decline. Phil Elliot was in first, he got his book out, he sold thirteen thousand, I think he got two issues out before I got mine in, this was March '87. He was out in December '86.

If you wish to be good "Pantagruelists" (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put too much faith in people who look out through a hole.

I never liked the name Eldred. Since nobody knew me in New York, I just changed to my middle name.

Un homme avec Dieu est toujours dans la majorite . One man with God is always a majority.

Don't call me, I'll call you... I'm out.