“Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.”

How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?

You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.

Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.

Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.

It’s not about knowing who you are. It’s about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody’s. You dont start over. That’s what it’s about. Every step you take is forever. You can’t make it go away. None of it.

He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they’d have no heart to start at all.

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that’s just about the best kind of luck you can have.

Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.

Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I’d made before it.

But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.

He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.

I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.

The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class with it. Turns out the light and is gone. Look around you. Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.

It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.

If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won’t even be recognizable.

Talent comes from experience and failure.

No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.

Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.

So you’re somebody now, but what’s somebody in a nobody town?

The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul.

Knowing your deepest intention can be your guiding force in the creation of a better life.

But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.