“They had half a mind to refuse me a passage.”

“He had thought the army would pay for the voyage, but the army had refused, saying that Sharpe was accepting an invitation to join the 95th Rifles and if the 95th Rifles refused to pay his passage then damn them, damn their badly colored coats, and damn Sharpe. […] Britain had sent Sharpe to India, and Britain, Sharpe reckoned, should fetch him back.”

“Experience had taught me that even the most precious memories fade with the passage of time.”

“I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand,
that Joplin had the last drunken throat,
that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.”

“And if my friends refused to listen to me, then the walls had to hear me or the stones in the fields and the trees of the forests.”

“Forgiveness is for anyone who needs safe passage through my mind.”

“Only idiots refuse to change their minds.”

“Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.”

“I'd been told that he had been created-literally created-just for me, as my "perfect other half." Let me tell you-if Dylan was my perfect other half, then i needed to give my first half a seriouis look-see.”

“I'm not exactly known as a huge fan of Apple. In fact, for nearly a decade and half I've refused to use their products and I'm supposedly banned for life from Apple's properties. It's definitely personal between me and that company …”