Was Jane now. All Jane. Come calamity or come calm, was myself and none else.

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.

what I like and what I need’s two different things.

Can’t count on no miracles. Sometimes, you just got to have a plan.

I wish magic was more dramatic

Death is not scary enough and not so sweet life of the human foot leaves gentility.

All success in life comes to naught if it is laced with vanity.

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

I think that people get into trouble when they photograph something that they... that is not in their world. It's like when they say "write what you know."

In business life, that is, in its material processes, we eagerly accept the new. In social life, in all our social processes, we piously, valiantly, obdurately, maintain the old.

All beliefs are bald ideas.

[Heraclitus] concluded that coming-to-be itself could not be anything evil or unjust.

The reason I didn't fly over from Maui at their beck and call is my wife was about to have a baby at any time. Those guys knew that. These guys would not compromise and meet me halfway.

If I could not go to heaven with but a party, I would not go there at all. Therefore, I am not of the party of federalists. But I am much further from that of the anti-federalists.