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.

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 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.

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

If that's the example you want set, you be the example.

The day here is a something without value, a mere torment suffered by living creatures as they await the night. Night is deliverance.

you're like a dictionary, you add meaning to my life

mercy, I think, doesn't the human race know anything about mercy?

I'm not against the Hanukkah songs. I like Hanukkah songs. I grew up with Hanukkah songs. I'm not opposed to Hanukkah or the songs that accompany it, at all.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.

Friends are the fruitcake of life - some nutty, some soaked in alcohol, some sweet.

Consumers are going to have get used to eating less meat - to paying more for better quality meat and eating significantly less of it.

I thought of several alec smart remarks, but you should humor crazy people when you're at their mercy; it's a rule.

I'm not the guy who's afraid of failure. I like to take risks, take the big shot and all that.