I can see through the human heart$$$ and I know that life's biggest prize is to have the day before you as yours alone to do with as you wish.

Why pamper life's complexities when the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat?

Constitutional democracy$$$ you see$$$ is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves$$$ the one foe who might defeat us.

I don't mind if you forget me. Having learned my lesson$$$ I never left an impression on anyone.

How can anybody say they know how I feel? The only one around here who is me$$$ is ME.

She's as sweet as tupelo honey$$$ she's an angel of the first degree.

Nothing could be counted on in a world where even when you were a solution you were a problem.

In time the whole family perked up like Sesame Street puppets$$$ hoping that cheer$$$ if worked at hard enough$$$ could sugar the living and quiet the dead.

...the flirt whom folks called Life$$$ lead them on. Making them think the next sunrise would be worth it.

A man ain't a goddamn axe$$$ choppin'$$$ hackin'$$$ bustin' every goddamn minute of the day. Things get to him. Things he can't chop down$$$ because they inside.