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.
Charles PortisMy Master of Arts degree means nothing at all to these monkeys and I have come to share their indifference.
Charles PortisListen, here's what I'd like to do: I'd like to live in a trailer and play records all night.
Charles PortisAs he drank, little brown drops of coffee clung to his mustache like dew. Men will live like billy goats if they are let alone.
Charles PortisI had hated these ponies for the part they played in my father's death but now I realized the notion was fanciful, that it was wrong to charge blame to these pretty beasts who knew neither good nor evil but only innocence. I say that of these ponies. I have known some horses and a good many more pigs who I believe harbored evil intent in their hearts. I will go further and say all cats are wicked, though often useful. Who has not seen Satan in their sly faces? Some preachers will say, well, that is superstitious "claptrap." My answer is this: Preacher, go to your Bible and read Luke 8: 26-33
Charles Portis