“I would tell people some years later that I was raised an only child and so was my brother.”

“I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to want to know it.”

“A man can't hit a woman and stay a man. He becomes a loathsome thing, even to himself. But the woman who stays with such a man panders to his darkness. They both risk their souls.”

“Not much comes easy in this world, Sonny. If it does, it's best to be suspicious of it. It's probably not worth much.”

“As I lay dying, the woman with the dog's eyes would not close my eyes as I descended into Hades.”

“Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we are born.”

“Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep,even so I will endure…For already have I suffered full much,and much have I toiled in perils of waves and war.Let this be added to the tale of those.”