The only things you can ever truly own cannot be bought with money.
The notion that we've made vast moral progress and are now a less violent species is belied by our awesome powers of destruction, our military might, police forces as well-armed as soldiers. Without t...
Pride has traditionally been regarded as the foremost of the Seven Deadly Sins, but it has rather obviously been overtaken by Greed.
Without the right to defend yourself--and the right to possesss the means to do it--all other supposed rights are so much hot air.
History is a record of human nature in action.
One of the greatest of human follies is that we think we know ourselves so well, that we know how we would act under any conditions, that we would under any circumstance 'do the right thing.' Well, as...
Sex and violence ... are the two great engines of the world.
Men tend to remember the best things about the women they've loved and to forget the worst, which is why so many men make the same mistakes with women again and again. Women tend to forget the best th...
Just because it's a world of thieves out there don't mean there ain't no rules to it.
The moon grew plump and pale as a peeled apple, waned into the passing nights, then showed itself again as a thin silver crescent in the twilit western sky. The shed of leaves became a cascade of red...
They loved the sea. They taught themselves to sail, to navigate and read the weather. Without their mother's knowledge and long before she thought them old enough to sail outside the harbor, they were...
I mean to tell you, the Law's notion of justice is more cold-blooded than any outlaw I ever knew. And I mean 'outlaw,' not criminal. 'Criminal' doesn't distinguish between guys like men and the guys w...
A man who can laugh at himself is truly blessed, for he will never lack for amusement.
If the devil ever raised a garden, the Everglades was it.
The greatest tragedy that can befall a man is never to know who he really is.
When you make a deal you stick to it. Rock-hard rule. You don't renege, you don't sell out. You hold up your end and expect the other party to do the same. If the other party doesn't, you're entitled...
You do not tell people to go fuck themselves and then later when you're in trouble ask them to help you.
He finally comprehended that the sole impossibility regarding human sorrow is to arrive at some unsurpassable limit to it.
There's an old saying," Buck said. "A hundred things can go wrong in a holdup, and if you can think of fifty of them you're a damn genius.
Every single time it was grand. I loved the moment when you announce the stickup and everything suddenly goes brighter and sharper and the world seems to spin faster. You show them the gun and say han...
