The more pain I train myself to stand, the more I learn. You are afraid of pain now, Unk, but you won't learn anything if you don't invite the pain. And the more you learn, the gladder you will be to stand the pain.

“It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intellige…”

“It shook up Trout to realize that even he could bring evil into the world — in …”

“Like everybody else in the cocktail lounge, he was softening his brain with alc…”

“Maturity...is knowing what your limitations are...Maturity is a bitter disappoi…”