💬 Quotes

"That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But, it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been."

"In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice."

"I was certain that if a boy spent enough time out in the mountains, he would eventually get what he wanted."

"It's a shame that people all over the world can't have that kind of love in their hearts. There would be no wars, slaughter, or cruelty if everyone loved each other the way my dogs loved me."

"I had everything in the world I wanted. I had two of the finest hounds that ever treed a coon, and I had my mountain."

"God helps those who help themselves. I had helped myself, and God had answered my prayers."

"There are times when I feel it's a sin to kill a tree, but there are other times when I feel it's a bigger sin not to."

"I don't know if any other person has ever felt as close to God as I did on that beautiful mountain top."

"History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."

"America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets."

"You don't get it, do you? The world is a sewer, and we're the guys with the long poles cleaning out the shit."

"The past is a foreign country where they do things differently—and usually with a caliber of .38."

"There are no heroes. There are only guys who get lucky and guys who get caught."

"We’re the guys who make the history books look like fairy tales for children. We live in the footnotes."

"Money is the only honest thing in this country. It talks, it screams, and it never tells a lie."

"The past is a pool of darkness. We are always throwing things into it, wishing, hoping, waiting to see what floats to the surface."

"All plots tend to move deathward. This is in the nature of plots. Political plots, love plots, narrative plots."

"He wanted to know how a man could be so alone that he would have to kill a president to get attention."

"We are not sure what happened, but we are beginning to see how it happened, and that is a kind of truth."

"The CIA is a way of understanding the world. It is a way of shaping it, of making it turn the way we want it to turn."