This is a damn useless conversation. Goodbye. (Charles Goodnight to Woodrow Call)
The smartest man alive can’t learn much about a woman in two weeks.
That possibility alone made his quandary more difficult. His wife had left for parts unknown, his deputy was wandering in other parts unknown, and the man he was supposed to catch was in yet other par...
Po Campo had given him a hailstone dipped in molasses and he sat licking it and feeling alternately happy and sad while the men got dressed and prepared to be cowboys again.
One reason I’ve hung on to book selling is that it’s progressive—the opposite of writing, pretty much. Eventually all novelists, if they persist too long, get worse. No reason to name names, since no...
Of course she teased the girls, but it was not the same as having a grown man to work on—she had often felt like pinching Bob for being so stolid. July was no better—in fact, he and Bob were cut from...
I’ve seen your father bury many a man, but I never saw him take this kind of pains. Newt
It's very peculiar, the situations life presents one with, Father Geoff reflected.
It seemed to him the highest principle, loyalty. He preferred it to honor. He had never been exactly sure what men meant when they spoke of their honor, though it had been a popular word during the ti...
Is growin' up always miserable? Sonny asked. Nobody seems to enjoy it much. Oh, it ain't necessarily misearble, Sam replied. About eighty percent of the time, I guess. They were silent again, Sam the...
Incompetents invariably made trouble for people other than themselves.
I'll pass on snow myself, when I have the option.
I think its a sickness to grieve too much for those who never cared a fig for you.
He was fairly drunk, and feeling melancholy about all the sinking he had done in the world. Throughout the rough years the Greek alphabet had leaked out of his mind a letter at a time—in fact, the can...
He doesn't talk much, though, she added. I don't care whether he talks or not, Lorena said. I wouldn't marry a man just for conversation. I'd rather read and having to know how than listen to some man...
Give Call a grievance, however silly, and he would save it like money.
Earlier in his life he had done many foolish things in order to convince himself that he was not worthless
Do you know what it means to be heartbroken?...It means your heart isn't whole, so you can't really do anything wholeheartedly.
Could any woman live every day with that level of masculinity?
No medicine man or wise man knew why one man died and another lived. Wise men themselves often died before fools, and cowards before men who were brave.