“I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!" "Finish your eggs first.”

“Mama--Mama--I want so many things... I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy...”

“DAMN MY EGGS! DAMN ALL THE EGGS THAT EVER WAS!" -Wilson”

“What you ain't never understood is that I ain't got nothing, don't own nothing, ain't never really wanted nothing that wasn't for you. There ain't nothing as precious to me...There ain't nothing worth holding on to, money, dreams, nothing else--”

“You aimin' to go the full circle now? How long before I have to come get you up from the sidewalks? You got hurt and pain in you? Well, I used to know a man who knew how to live with his pain and make his hurt work for him. Your daddy died with dignity; there wasn't no bum in him. And he known some hurts in this life you ain't never even heard of!”

“Perhaps I will be a great man...I mean perhaps I will hold on to the substance of truth and find my way always with the right course”

“I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful, and that which is love. Therefore, since I have known all of these things, I have found them to be reason enough and — I wish to live. Moreover, because this is so, I wish others to live for generations and generations and generations and generations.”