They might last another year or two,
You’re the only man I know whose brain don’t work unless it’s in the shade.
You ought to take more chances, I said. I took too many earlier, she said. I'm sorry.
The thing that Buffalo Hump was most grateful for, as he rode into the emptiness, was the knowledge that in the years of his youth and manhood he had drawn the lifeblood of so many enemies. He had bee...
The skinny ones last longer than the fat ones, Louisa said. You’ll probably last till you’re about sixty.
The sensible way, which he had pursued once or twice in his life, had always proved boring, usually within a few days.
Pussyfooting is a vice I have been concerned to avoid.
Live through it, Call said. That's all we can do.
Listening to women ain't the fashion in this part of the country.--Augustus McCrae
Life ain’t for sissies, as Augustus might have said.
It was only the thought that Deets was still knowing him, somehow, that kept him from feeling totally alone.
I think we spent our best years fighting on the wrong side.
I nowadays have the feeling that not only are most bookmen are eccentrics, but even the act they support--reading--is itself an eccentricity now, if a mild one. Interrupted narrative has become a natu...
I don’t think you ever wanted to be happy anyway. It don’t suit you, so you managed to avoid it.
I don’t believe in protein, I said. I think it’s a myth, like vitamins. I don’t believe in nutrition, in fact. I think it’s all a myth.
How about a kiss?Are you man enough to try? she asked.
His habit had been to go and meet whatever needed to be met, not to wait idly for what might approach.
He himself had once been a man of firm opinion, but now it seemed to him that he knew almost nothing, whereas the words Clara flung at him were hard as rocks.
Earlier in his life he had done many foolish things in order to convince himself that he was not worthless
Deets slapped his leg and laughed, the thought was so funny. When the rest of the outfit finally wondered down from the house they found the two of them grinning back and forth at one another.Look at...