The crimes the law can understand are not the worst crimes.
I was just doodling at the typewriter,
You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination.
It's just that it's fearsome for a man to have a woman start thinking right in front of him. It always leads to trouble.
I just got gang-egged, or egg-banged or something.--Sheriff Toots Burns.
Certainly on the vast windy plain, there was plenty of nothing to be looked at.
No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.
I pride myself on being able to put up with a lot, Nellie said. But bagpipers are pretty much my limit.
A sleeping man would miss the best of the evening, and the moonrise as well.
No half measures, he muttered several times. It was his personal motto; he intended to have it latinised and put on a crest.
It doesn’t do to sacrifice for people unless they want you to, Clara said. It’s just a waste.
I miss Gus...I get to expecting to hear him talk and he ain't here. My ears sort of get empty.
All vessels leaked to some degree.
Love’s a terrible price to pay for company, ain’t it, Matty? Caleb said. I won’t pay it, myself. I’d rather do without the company.
I sing about life. I am happy, but life is sad.
I'd hate to read all these books...that much reading could put your eyes out.
My main skills are talking and cooking biscuits, Augustus said. And getting drunk on the porch.
Looking at her, though, was like looking at the hills. The hills stayed as they were. You could go them, if you had the means, but they extended no greeting.
Ikey had passed his seventieth year and considered anyone under fifty to be callow, at best.
I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live. Call