“Living to please people is like chasing many shadows at the same time!”

“People live their lives like something’s chasing them and by the time you get to the end, you look back and wonder if it was all worth it.”

“I mean, you know how it is. You chase a bottle of sleeping pills with a bottle of Jack Daniel's and life's never the same, no matter how many times you try to tell people it was just an accident.”

“You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past. It's frightening how many people and things there are in a man's past that have stopped moving. The living people we've lost in the crypts of time sleep so soundly side by side with the dead that the same darkness envelops them all.As we grow older, we no longer know whom to awaken, the living or the dead.”

“‎"A noise, and the past was chased away, dispersed into the shadows like smoke by the brighter, louder present.”

“They're gone. I let them chase me. I led them like a sunbeam and vanished like a shadow.”