“I'm just trying to matter.”

“I'm just tryin to matter.”

“One morning, about four o'clock, I was driving my car just about as fast as I could. I thought, 'Why am I out on the highway this time of night?' I was miserable, and it all came to me: 'I'm falling in love with somebody I have no right to fall in love with. I can't fall in love with this man, but it's just like a ring of fire.”

“Every dog has it's day, unless he loses his tail, then he has a weakend.”

“steel is strong because it knew the hammer and white heat”

“Life is for living and for sharing - but not taking.”

“This chapter is dedicated to those other delights of punctuation--exquisite little squiggles, those most delightful dots and dashes, and other tragically under-appreciated tiny tidbits!Nah. I'm just yankin' your chain.”