“Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”
“Why'd you want to sing about sad things?" Candy had asked him."Because any fool can be happy," he'd said to her."It takes a man with real heart"—he'd made a fist and laid it against his chest—"to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”
“Beer's nice for being glad and dizzy, and sometimes for the mystery and stuff, but the happy that comes out of a beer can is not like the real happy you got to make in your heart.”
“Love can make a fool of any man.”
“Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.”
“Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job; it takes a wise man to make it without working.”