“The old goes into making us what we are, or what we're hell-bent on not being.”
“The Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things... It was the crossroads of our being, and it was a hell of a crossroads.”
“And what makes us human is that sometimes we snap. And in that moment of release we're closer to gods than we know.”
“To hell with sense! We're all crazy. What do we want with sense?”
“We're frightened of what makes us different.”
“Nothing goes perfectly for us. But... being incomplete is what pushes us onward to the next something... If we were even perfectly satisfied, what meaning would the rest of our lives hold, right?”