Not counting you Ive never had a heartache. — Garth Brooks

"And the white lines getting longer and the saddles getting cold. Im much too young to feel this damn old. All my cards are on the table with no ace left in the hole, Im much too young to feel this damn old."

"If tomorrow never comes, Will she know how much I loved her? Did I try in every way to show her every day That shes my only one? And if my time on earth were through, And she must face the world without me, Is the love I gave her in the past Gonna be enough to last? If tomorrow never comes."

"Cause Ive got friends in low places Where the whiskey drowns And the beer chases my blues away. And Ill be okay. Im not big on social graces; Think Ill slip on down to the oasis. Oh, Ive got friends in low places."

"The thunder rolls, And the lightnin strikes. Another love grows cold On a sleepless night. As the storm blows on Out of control, Deep in her heart The thunder rolls."

"Sometimes I thank God for unanswered prayers. Remember when youre talkin to the man upstairs, That just because he doesnt answer doesnt mean he dont care. Some of Gods greatest gifts are unanswered prayers."

"Aint going down til the sun comes up; Aint givin in til they get enough. Going round the world in a pickup truck, Aint goin down til the sun comes up."

"At one point a heated discussion arose over the possible interpretation of Lolita as a grandiose metaphor of the classic Europeans hopeless love for young, seductive, barbaric America. In his afterword to the novel Nabokov himself mentions this as the naive theory of one of the publishers who turned the book down. And although there cant be the slightest doubt that Nabokov did not mean to limit Lolita to that interpretation, there is no reason to exclude it as one of the novels many dimensions. The point, I felt, became obvious when one drew the line between Lolita as a delightfully frivolous story on the verge of pornography and Lolita as a literary masterpiece, the only convincing love story of our century."

"Lovely food, for rabbits, that is."

"One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved."

"[explaining to Ernie how April apologized to him] She just showed up at the factory, took off her coat, and begged me to take her. We made love in a way that Ive only ever seen in nature films."

"Love is always love, come whence it may. A heart that beats at your approach, an eye that weeps when you go away are things so rare, so sweet, so precious that they must never be despised."

"He was obeyed, yet he inspired neither love nor fear, nor even respect. He inspired uneasiness. That was it! Uneasiness. Not a definite mistrust — just uneasiness — nothing more. You have no idea how effective such a... a... faculty can be. He had no genius for organizing, for initiative, or for order even. That was evident in such things as the deplorable state of the station. He had no learning, and no intelligence. His position had come to him — why? Perhaps because he was never ill . . . He had served three terms of three years out there . . . Because triumphant health in the general rout of constitutions is a kind of power in itself."