“Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesn’t catch up, it overtakes … blotting out the future.”

“My past is trying to catch up to me and I must continue run from it. It's the only way I can live.”

“When someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them.”

“What happens when you run out of patience? Just exert a little bit more. Keep stretching it.”

“I'm sure that's when you really know you are happy - when you wake up wanting to embrace your future, rather than trying to squirm away from your past.”

“Because he knows you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy. He knows there's a painful side; he knows my thumb smarts and his girlfriend has a bruised breast and the doctor is losing his glasses, but he won't let the pain blot out the humor no more'n he'll let the humor blot out the pain.”