Folks think a lifetime is a thing stretched out over years. It ain't. It can happen quick as a match in a dark room.

To me, chocolate was the sole reason we on this earth.

I guess mercy is a muscle like any other. You got to exercise it, or it just cramp right up.

Ain't no glory made from being dependable.

It's like that, I guess, when the past come to collect what you owe.

It's early yet. It's always early, while you still alive.

What is luck but something made to run out.

Ain't no man can outrun his fate.

The kid come in at a strange angle, made the notes glitter like crystal.

Canada kills any conversation quick, I learned long ago. It's a little trick of mine.

Of all the excellent copyedits I've received over the years, Marie-Lynn Hammond's was by far the best. Her work on Half Blood Blues was incredibly sensitive and astute.

Denial isn't just a river in Egypt.

Small herbs have grace, great weeds to grow apace.

...because wonder admits to the existence of mystery, and the recognition of mystery in the world allows the possibility of Truth.

This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

I find vocabulary to be a great drawback.

We justify the inequalities by saying some people are just better and smarter than others and the strong should survive and the poor can die off.

I just admire everybody and sit in awe and watch them.

There is, even today, a Flat Earth Society that meets every year to say the Earth is flat. The science about climate change is very clear. There really is no room for doubt at this point.

The more false we destroy, the more room there will be for the true.

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