Do you have any notion of how goddamned crazy you are?
By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker.
Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.
Betty, he said. Yes.
All other trades are contained in that of war. Is that why war endures? No. It endures because young men love it and old men love it in them. Those that fought, those that did not.
A malign star kept him.
He watched the fire and if he saw portents there it was much the same to him. He would live to look upon the western sea and he was equal to whatever might follow for he was complete at every hour. Wh...
Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
Ჩიგურმა სახეში ესროლა. ყველაფერი რაც ოდესმე უელსმა იცოდა ან უფიქრია ან უყვარდა ნელ-ნელა ჩამოიღვენთა კედელზე მის უკან. დედის სახე, პირველი ზიარება, ქალები რომლებიც უყვარდა. იმ მამაკაცების სახეები რომლე...
You fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain't nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It's just a aggravation.
One pounding coffeebeans in a buckskin with a rock while the others stared into the fire with eyes as black as gunbores.
Like some scurrilous king stripped of his vestiture and driven together with his fool into the wilderness to die.
Your ideas are terrifying and your hearts are faint. Your acts of pity and cruelty are absurd, committed with no calm, as if they were irresistible. Finally, you fear blood more and more. Blood and ti...
You might change your mind about what you hate to leave, he said.
When the shooting starts would you rather be armed or legal?
What loomed was a flayed man with his brisket tacked open like a cooling beef and his skull peeled, blue and bulbous and palely luminescent, black grots his eyeholes and bloody mouth gaped tongueless....
What is true of one man, said the judge, is true of many.
We none of us knew him to speak [Dutch]. Asked him where he'd learned it you know what he said?What did he say.Said off a Dutchman.
They stood among their horses in the squalid little alameda while the wind ransacked the trees and the birds nesting in the gray twilight cried out and clutched the limbs and the snow swirled and blew...
They said that it was no accident of circumstance that a man be born in a certain country and not some other and they said that the weathers and seasons that form a land form also the inner fortunes o...