“Divorce is just as contagious as Marriage.”

“It ain't no fun once the rabbit has got the gun.”

“Anybody can fail.”

“A Man can Choose what he wants to be. A Gentleman doesn't have a Choice.”

“Everything in life is a story just waiting to be written.”

“Having declared a passion for his wildness, she had sought from the beginning to tame him.”

“Now I think of the starling flocks that move across the stripped winter landscape at home; how you'll hear and look up to this great rush of birds, lifting and diving and turning. I think of the ravens, afloat on the air streams. Of the crows, going home at the fade of light, hundreds on hundreds, flowing and flowing, the winter sky filled with their tide.Dark birds, ruffianly dark birds, stronger than birds of light and better survivors. They are the undervoice, scavenging life, living off gleanings. Uncivilised. Shameless. Outside the law. They allow the return of the soul.”