“That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.”

“I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.”

“I hope that death containsless than this.”

“It's all overrated, man. Sex is only a great thing if you're not getting any.”

“You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.”

“Those faces you see every day on the streets were not created entirely without hope: be kind to them: like you they have not escaped.”

“Sometimes a man doesn’t know what to do about things and sometimes it’s best to lie very still and try not to think at all about anything.”