“It's not what you don't know that kills you, it's what you know for sure that ain't true.”

“You don't know what I'm all about / Like killing cops and reading Kerouac”

“The thing that you know to be true is the lie that will kill you.”

“But I don't know what to him about the aftermath of killing a person. About how they never leave you.”

“Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.”

“Love is a kind of killing, Addy," she says. "Don't you know that?”

“Don't you know that I'm not joking?
Aah, you think you won't, I think you will.
Don't you know that this tongue can kill?
C'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon.
Lady kiss that frog.”

“Alison, I know this world is killing you.
Oh, Alison, my aim is true.
My aim is true.”

“Don't be bitter. Remember Lot's wife when they kill me, and they surely will. You have to use all of your energy to do what it is you have to do. [To his wife Betty Shabazz]”

“The little girl saw her first troop parade and asked,
"What are those?"
"Soldiers."
"What are soldiers?"
"They are for war. They fight and each tries to kill as many of the other side as he can."
The girl held still and studied.
"Do you know … I know something?"
"Yes, what is it you know?"”