“The world is ruled by cowards and cravens; brave men have put them there.”

“Two men, two friends curled in bed. The next few minutes would decide everything.”

“If I had done this, if I had said that, in the end you are always more tormented by what you didn't do than what you did, actions already performed can always be rationalized in time, the neglected deed might have changed the world.”

“In the Sixties people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, people take Prozac to make it normal.”

“The world is different, but folks are the same, huh?”

“With so many willing, complex women in the world, he had little respect for men who fixated on girlishness. Innocence was, by definition, an absence of experience—character—knowledge. To desire that absence seemed rather deviant.”

“Miracles are only such because we can't understand them. Faith is when we act, knowing Christ is behind those miracles.”