The fundamental difference between the sexes is this: men make assumptions, but women rarely do.

How many times, over how many years, had he—a grown man—asked for the mercy of another chance? He was suddenly so sick of himself, so revolted, that he could have groaned aloud.

My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he had to be in charge of his problems.

This is how a man looks when he's deciding that the risk of death is better than the risk of change.

Working on a new idea is kind of like getting married. Then a new idea comes along and you think, 'Man, I'd really like to go out with her.' But you can't. At least not until the old idea is finished.

You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.

Late last night and the night before, tommyknockers, tommyknockers knocking on my door. I wanna go out, don't know if I can 'cuz I'm so afraid of the tommyknocker man.

Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again.

The soil of a man’s heart is stonier; a man grows what he can and tends it.