The years would pass like weeks, and loves would pass too, or else grow sour.
He loved the way she smelled in the mornings; he liked to sniff at her shoulders or her throat.
Henpecked, the great Wyatt Earp, Cody said.You evidently don’t know Jessie, Wyatt said. If she’s in one of her tempers she’d put a hyena to flight ...
Little by little, the look of the land changes by the men we admire.
He had hit with his closed fist and knocked her sprawling. It took talent to make Wyatt lose his temper, but Jessie knew just how to do it, and did it mainly just to have something happening. Pouring...
Getting up early and feeling awake was the one skill he had never truly perfected - he got up, of course, but it never felt natural.
A man that sleeps all night wastes too much of life.
If you did a thing hoping a person wouldn't find out, that person always did.
He decided not to shoot the tall stranger, mainly because he admired his soft felt hat.
Once started, love couldn't easily be stopped.
I don’t claim to know much: cards, fucking, and dentistry about covers it, Doc said.
He ought to let the past keep its glow and not try to mix it with what he had in the present.
There was said to be measuring of penises at the Orchid, but was it true and if so what did mean?
She wasn’t going to succeed in newspapers if she didn’t ask the big questions when she could.
I won't tolerate vanity in a man, though I will in a woman.
But the English are different, and they don’t know how to be other than different.
And it’s the only whorehouse in town. They say if you can sprout up twelve inches of dick you get to fuck free.
It doesn't do to sacrifice for people unless they want you to.
The crimes the law can understand are not the worst crimes.
I was just doodling at the typewriter,