I write to reach eternity

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

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.

It did not last long. It is only in the movies that knife fighters stab and miss and slash and miss and tussle over several city blocks.

Nonsense, n. The objections that are urged against this excellent dictionary.

Guilt is a weird thing to me. I don't have a lot of it.

I don't have any talent as an artist but I do have an awareness for business and what you need to bring to that world. It helps to know what you're good at.

How beautiful the days, They come and go.

Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it.

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

Basically, anything a sexual predator might do to woo a small suburban girl, I was trying.

Win if you can, lose if you must, always cheat, and if you have to leave the ring, leave tearing it down.

Survival in any meaningful sense is the key issue of our time

You must have a supplier relationship of constant improvement.