“Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.”

It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don’t believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.

There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.

People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn’t believe in that. Tomorrow wasn’t getting ready for them. It didn’t even know they were there.

I think by the time you’re grown you’re as happy as you’re goin to be. You’ll have good times and bad times, but in the end you’ll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I’ve knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.

All the time you spend tryin to get back what’s been took from you there’s more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.

Ever step you take is forever.

If there’s one thing on this planet you don’t look like it’s a bunch of good luck walkin around.

One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.

The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.

I’ve seen the meanness of humans till I don’t know why God ain’t put out the sun and gone away.

Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.

The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.

My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That’s heaven. That’s gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.

When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.

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

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.