Fife… simply walked off by himself, into the jungle to look at all the things which would continue to exist after he had ceased to. There were a lot of them. Fife looked at them all. They remained singularly unchanged by his scrutiny.
If I never meet you In this lifeLet me feel the lackA glance from your eyesThen my life Will be yours
The quality which makes man want to write and be read is essentially a desire for self-exposure and masochism. Like one of those guys who has a compulsion to take his thing out and show it on the street.
All Welsh knew was that he was scared shitless, and at the same time was afflicted with a choking gorge of anger that any social coercion existed in the world which could force him to be here.
The boy Prewitt loved the songs because they gave him something, a first hint that pain might not be pointless if you could only turn it into something.
The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.
It did not last long. It is only in the movies that knife fighters stab and miss and slash and miss and tussle over several city blocks.
It takes courage to stand for what you believe in.
Some day…as you grow older, you will find imagination sometimes produces a truth that is greater than any fact.
Did you ever hear the one about how every living woman dies three times? Once when she is seduced of her virginity, once when she is seduced of her freedom (I believe they call it marriage), and once when she is seduced of her husband.
…homosexuality is the direct result of chastity in women.
…the quickest, efficient, least expensive way to educate a man is to make it painful for him when he is wrong, the same as with any other animal.
He had not the makings of that honest man to whom success comes naturally.
The little bit you and me might change the world,” Malloy smiled, “it wouldnt show up until a hundred years after we were dead. We’d never see it.””But it’d be there.