“We born dyin'...But you ask a man an' he talk like he gonna live forevah.”

“Man, he lives in the jerks-- baby born an' a man dies, an' that's a jerk-- gets a farm an' loses his farm, an' that's a jerk. Woman, it's all one flow, like a stream, little eddies, little waterfalls, but the river, it goes right on. Woman looks at it like that. We ain't gonna die out. People is goin' on-- changin' a little, maybe, but goin' right on.”

“The way I see it, there are just 2 ways to go, livin' fast or dyin' slow! Which way you gonna go?”

“We struck up a conversation, but took pains to keep to small talk at first. We touched on the most trivial of topics: I asked if he thought the fate of man was unalterable. He thought it was.”

“Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.”

“Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue”