“The cemetery is where a young hustla go to retire, and prison is where he goes to grow old.”

“A room where one merely goes to bed costs twenty sous but a room where one retires may cost twenty francs.”

“No man goes further than he who knows not where he is going.”

“The love goes where it wants; you hear it rustling but you do not know where it's going and where it goes.”

“For West is where we all plan to go some day. It is where you go when the land gives out and the old-field pines encroach. It is where you go when you get the letter saying: Flee, all is discovered. It is where you go when you look down at the blade in your hand and the blood on it. It is where you go when you are told that you are a bubble on the tide of empire. It is where you go when you hear that thar's gold in them-thar hills. It is where you go to grow up with the country. It is where you go to spend your old age. Or it is just where you go.”

“For romantic young people like he is, the world always looks best at a distance; and a prison where one's allowed to order one's own dinner is not at all bad.”