As he was a bachelor and in nobody's debt,
nobody troubled their head about him any more.

Nathaniel Hawthorne,
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

I told you I was sick.

I'd do it all over again.

Either, now I know, and you do not,
Or, now I do not know; and maybe so you do;
But though you may think yourself so smart,
you don't really know you know, do you?

Let us cross over the river and rest in the shade of the trees.

Stonewall Jackson's dying words.

Nobody's right when everybody's wrong.

Quicksilver Messenger Service

Pretend to cry, my friends,
for poets only pretend to die.

John Cocteau,
Le Testement D'Orphée

To lose the earth, you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth--whereon the pillars of this earth are founded, toward which the conscience of this world is tending--a wind is rising, and the rivers flow.

Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again

La il la ha illa Allah-Hu.

I woke up this morning and I got myself a beer.
The future's uncertain and the end is always near.

Jim Morrison, "Roadhouse"

Well, you won't have Joe Jackson to kick around any more.

(ala Dick Nixon)