“Life kept you busy fighting off troubles, and you looked up, and the best parts of your life were gone.”

“That's the trouble with innocents. They aren't innocent of doing, just of knowing what they're doing.”

“I have more faith in my God than to believe He would give me a mind and then ask me not to use it.”

“I guess we ought to be tolerant," Lianne said. "They're just nasty because they need help. Everybody ought to be allowed to try and help themselves."No, ma'am, that aint true," Sarah said. "Some people ought to be shot on sight.”

“Forget all your sorrow, don't live in the past, and look to the future because life goes too fast, you know—it's a hard road.”

“All animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.”

“a phenomenon that gave rise to my first critical insight into the subtle ruse of power: the prevailing law threatened one with trouble, all to keep one out of trouble. Hence, I concluded that trouble is inevitable and the task, how best to make it, what best way to be in it.”