“...[I]t behooves a man who wants to see wonders sometimes to go out of his way.”

“We know not whom God loves nor whom He hates.”

“Of Paradise I cannot speak properly, for I have not been there; and that I regret.”

“When Men fly from danger, it is natural for them to run farther than they need.”

“Yes, you should talk," he said. "Sometimes a sad man can talk the sadness right out through his mouth. Sometimes a killin' man can talk the murder right out of his mouth.”

“Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.”

“I didn't want to see them lower him into the ground in the spot he'd picked out with his dad, and I didn't want to see his parents sink to their knees in the dew-wet grass and moan in pain....”