No one wants advice - only corroboration.
Time is the only critic without ambition.
If we climb this high I swear we'll never die.
And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.
Then the sun came up and shook the night chill out of the air the way you'd shake a rug.
I know, Ma. I'm a-tryin'. But them deputies- Did you ever see a deputy that didn't have a fat ass? An' they waggle their ass an' flop their gun aroun'. Ma, he said, if it was the law they was workin'...
When you're huntin' somepin you're a hunter, an' you're strong. Can't nobody beat a hunter. But when you get hunted - that's different. Somepin happens to you. You ain't strong: maybe you're fierce, b...
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
It was a good thing, we told ourselves; the eyes grow weary with looking at new things; sleeping late, we said, has its genuine therapeutic value; we would be better for it, would be able to work more...
I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless.
I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer -- and what trees and seasons smelled like -- how people loo...
There are map people whose joy is to lavish more attention on the sheets of colored paper than on the colored land rolling by. I have listened to accounts by such travelers in which every road number...
The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
They's times when how you feel got to be kep' to yourself.
Luck, you see, brings bitter friends.
And because they were in some way one thing and one purpose, she smiled with him.And they began this day with hope.
Memory of the knife will be gone when the flesh is gone.
All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
Wishing just brought earned disappointment.