"Lately we seem to get into arguments about what the country's about." "I thought that was the national pastime." "It is," Ernest said. - Robert Stone

A little cinder in the wind, Pablo - that's what you are."
"Everybody's worth something," Pablo said. "I mean - everybody's life got some meaning to it. You know - there's a reason for people."
"No kidding? A reason for you? What is it?"
"I don't know," Pablo confessed. "I ain't found out yet. But I know there is one.

Everyone loses everything in the end.

Are we friends today?" she asked him.
"There's a level, Justin, on which we're always friends. Then there's a level on which we can't be.