WHEN AUGUSTUS CAME OUT on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake—not a very big one. It had probably just been crawling around looking for shade when it ran into the pigs. They were having...
There was something different about her, Jake had to admit. She had a beautiful face, a beautiful body, but also a distance in her such as he had never met in a woman. Certain mountains were that way,...
Pea Eye loped up and unfolded himself in the direction of the ground. Your getting off a horse reminds me of an old crane landing in a mud puddle, Augustus said.
Most young dealers of the Silicon Chip Era regard a reference library as merely a waste of space. Old Timers on the West Coast seem to retain a fondness for reference books that goes beyond the practi...
Life in San Francisco is still just life. If you want one thing too much it’s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilk—and
Learning may be the best thing we have. It may be all that we can truly keep, Lorie,
It’s a funny life, Augustus said. All these cattle and nine-tenths of the horses is stolen, and yet we was once respected lawmen. If we get to Montana we’ll have to go into politics. You’ll wind up go...
I'm glad I've been wrong enough to keep in practice. . . You can't avoid it, you've got to learn to handle it. If you only come face to face with your own mistakes once or twice in your life it's boun...
I'll pass on snow myself, when I have the option.
He remembered the cold nights in their Arkansas cabin when he was a boy—how his mother piled quilts on top of him and his brothers, how peaceful it seemed under the quilts. Then it seemed like sleep w...
He gathers information that we can’t see, and puts it together.
From him to the stars, in all directions, there was only silence and emptiness.
Famous Shoes knew the young ranger was scared. Nothing was easier to detect in a man than fear. It showed even in the way he fumbled with his cup while drinking coffee; and it was normal that he would...
Everyone who came to see him asked questions that were either stupid or impertinent. Better to see no one than to see fools.
Even experienced men were apt to flounder badly in crises if they lacked leadership.
Don't be trying to give back pain for pain...You can't get even measures in business like this.
CHERFUL IN ALL WEATHERS, NEVER SHERKED A TASK, SPLENDID BEHAVIOUR.
But once in a while, even if nobody mentioned one, the thought of women entered his head all on its own, and once it came it usually tneded to stay for several hours, filling his noggin like a cloud o...
But as far as trusting the general run of men, there was no need, since she had no intention of ever expecting anything from one of them again.
Better by far never to have known the pleasure than to have the pain that followed.