Paul was a strong person in every respect and it made us all feel much better that he was there. - Jim Harrison

The heart wants life so much and the brain is shocked at the approach of death. The soldier always thinks it will be someone else, the man before or behind him, or hopefully no one he knows will ever die.

I have this sense of being a prematurely old man in a quarrel with himself over the worth of his life, a hopelessly bullshit notion.

"Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right."