Un hombre es así como quien está soñando un sueño de aflicción y despierta a una pena aún mayor. Todo lo que ama se ha convertido en una tortura. Alguien ha estirado la pinza del eje del universo. Tod...
This is a terrible place to die in.Where's a good one?
This country will kill you in a heartbeat and still people love it.
They’d put an awning up over the gravesite but the weather was all sideways and it did no good. The canvas rattled and flapped and the preacher’s words were lost in the wind.
They sell that shit to schoolkids. It’s worse than that. How’s that? Schoolkids buy it.
They say that women dream of danger to those in their care and men of danger to themselves.
There was a sharp crack from somewhere on the mountain. Then another. It's just a tree falling, he said. It's okay. The boy was looking at the dead roadside trees. It's okay, the man said. All the tre...
There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the night have been, but there is no might have been. There never was. It is supposed to be true that those who do not know history are co...
There is no description of a fool that you fail to satisfy.
There ain't but one life worth livin and I was born to it.
The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have power to wake it. Hell aint half full. Hear me. Ye carry war of a madman’s making onto a foreign land. Ye’l...
The stars burned with a lidless fixity and they drew nearer in the night until toward dawn he was stumbling among the whinstones of the uttermost ridge to heaven, a barren range of rock so enfolded in...
The small sands in that waste was all there was for the wind to move and it moved with a constant migratory seething upon itself. As if in its ultimate granulation the world sought some stay against i...
The rain had ripened all the country around and the roadside grass was luminous and green from the run-off and flowers were in bloom across the open country. He slept that night in a field far from an...
The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one.
The next day on the far side of the mountain we encountered the two lads that had deserted us. Hangin upside down in a tree. They'd been skinned and I can tell ye it does very little for a man's appea...
The men poured gasoline on them and burned them alive, having no remedy for evil but only for the image of it as they conceived it to be.
The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstitiion will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets hims...
The judge watched him. He began to point out various men in the room and to ask if these men were here for a good time or if indeed they knew why they were here at all.Everybody dont have to have a re...
The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one’s heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.