Was still between Martha and Jane, then, I was. Between the girl I was and who I wanted to be.

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 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.

I believe religious indoctrination is child abuse.

The shrewd, like chameleons, embrace change by using it to their advantage.

Reading a book, watching a movie, going to a play, it's transporting, and very, very exciting. And to be a part of that, creating things with your imagination, whoa.

The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society; Providence takes its cue from men.

Iraq is not going to starve to death because of the absence of assistance from Arab countries.

Without information, there can be no real understanding of the ramifications of our choices.

The whole global warming thing is created to destroy America's free enterprise system and our economic stability.

... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for the whole.

Great anger and violence can never build a nation.

It's not where you start but where you finish that counts.