“I remember when Jack Smith, putting together a story on me, read me a quote from Jack London: ‘I would rather be a meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.’ ‘What does that mean to you?’ Jack Smith asked. I thought for a long moment, and then I said, ‘Throw deep.’”

Kenny Stabler Snake

In the winter forest “There was a hint in it of laughter, but of a laughter more terrible than any sadness – a laughter that was as mirthless as the smile of the Sphinx, a laughter cold as the frost and partaking of the grimness of infallibility. It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life.”

Jack London White Fang

“I know what you’re thinking. You’ll never find a man quite like me.”

Some character (I didn’t record which) on the TV show “Family Matters” on TBS June 6, 1996

“What a miserable thing life is: you’re living in clover, only the clover isn’t good enough.”

Bertold Brecht, quoted in Jon Winokur Zen to Go

“The years teach much which the days never know.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoted on www.hound-dog-media.com

“If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles.”

Doug Larson, quoted on https://www.hound-dog-media.com