...the quickest, efficient, least expensive way to educate a man is to make it painful for him when he is wrong, the same as with any other animal.

That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.

The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.

War don't ennoble men, it turns 'em into dogs. It poisons the soul.

If I never meet you In this life Let me feel the lack A glance from your eyes Then my life Will be yours

The little bit you and me might change the world," Malloy smiled, "it wouldnt show up until a hundred years after we were dead. We'd never see it." "But it'd be there.

If I never meet you In this lifeLet me feel the lackA glance from your eyesThen my life Will be yours

I write to reach eternity

All Welsh knew was that he was scared shitless, and at the same time was afflicted with a choking gorge of anger that any social coercion existed in the world which could force him to be here.

The boy Prewitt loved the songs because they gave him something, a first hint that pain might not be pointless if you could only turn it into something.

Every man has a right to kill himself.

Fatigue fatigue is when you're tired of being tired.

A rival editor in Philadelphia said that the spreading railroad network carried "New York everywhere" in terms of the city's predominant influence.

Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.

Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room.

Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of.

I play hard and aggressive. I don't lay out the huge body checks because it's not really the style I play. But I love to be around the net and love battling corners and trying to dish pucks out.

When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.

I just got one last thing, I urge all of you, all of you, to enjoy your life, the precious moments you have. To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you're emotions going.

I don't doubt love for a second. I'm living for love. Listen to my songs!

I am in fear, there is no humour left in public life because of this fear.