“Take care of the people, and god almighty will take care of himself.”

“There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.”

“Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.”

“Still and all, why bother? Here’s my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.”

“The gun made a ripping sound like the opening of a zipper on the fly of God Almighty.”

“Take life seriously but none of the people in it.”

“Don’t matter if you care,” the old miner said, “if you don’t own what you care about.”