“I'll not listen to reason...Reason always means what some one else has got to say.”

“I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.”

“To lose one's life is no great matter; when the time comes I'll have the courage to lose mine. But what's intolerable is to see one's life being drained of meaning, to be told there's no reason for existing. A man can't live without some reason for living.”

“Rich kid," Shiva yelled, "you don't know one damn thing! What purpose, man? What thing in the whole sister-sleeping world got reason, yara? For what reason you're rich and I'm poor? Where's the reason in starving, man? God knows how many millions of damn fools living in this country, man, and you think there's a purpose! Man, I'll tell you -- you got to get what you can, do what you can with it, and then you got to die. That's reason, rich boy. Everything else is only mother-sleeping wind!”

“A man always has two reasons for what he does--a good one, and the real one.”

“[B]ut pain doesn't listen to reason, it has it's own reason, which is not reasonable.”