I always go backwards when I am backing up.

As he drank, little brown drops of coffee clung to his mustache like dew. Men will live like billy goats if they are let alone.

You must pay for everything in this world one way and another. There is nothing free except the Grace of God. You cannot earn that or deserve it.

One time you smash a bug with no mercy. Another time you find one helpless on his back with his legs flailing the air, and you flip him over and let him go on his way. The struggle that touches the heart.

But I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool?

You do not think much of me, do you, Cogburn?" "I don't think about you at all when your mouth is closed.

Mexican homes as a rule are closed off to the world by high blank walls of yellowish masonry, topped with broken glass to discourage escaladores, or climbing burglars. The gardens and fountains and other delights are hidden, as in an Arab city.