“A person's got to think, otherwise that person's no better than a trained seal balancing a ball on his nose. If only that seal could think, he'd know he was making a thousand children laugh.”

“Even if you forget everything else I want you to always remember that you are a person of value, and you have a friend who loved you enough to give you his most valued possession.”

“But will somebody please tell me what's a person to do when they're too afraid of life to live and too afraid of death to die?”

“Why is it I'm always so quick to believe that people are thinking...believing the worst about me?”

“I was hooked on writing. I mean, where else can you get paid for sticking your nose into somebody else's business?”

“What do you know about sooner or later? Is a moment only a moment when you're in pain?”

“Like the Bible tells us, when a man will lay down his life for a friend, well, then there ain't no greater love in this here world than that.”