“If a lion can growl, why shouldn’t a man cry?”
“A man in the jungle at night, as someone said, may suppose a hyena's growl to be a lion's; but when he hears the lion's growl, he knows damn well it's a lion.”
“A man shouldn’t go crying like that, people will think you’re weak.”
“Why does a man cry? he wondered. Not like a woman; not for that. Not for sentiment. A man cries over the loss of something, something alive. A man can cry over a sick animal that he knows won't make it. The death of a child: a man can cry for that. But not because things are sad.A man, he thought, cries not for the future or the past but for the present.”
“Why be the lamb when you can be the lion?”
“Reality can destroy the dream, why shouldn’t the dream destroy reality.”