A goodlookin horse is like a goodlookin woman, he said. They're always more trouble than what they're worth. What a man needs is just one that will get the job done.

and for a moment he held out his hands as if to steady himself or as if to bless the ground there or perhaps as if to slow the world that was rushing away and seemed to care nothing for the old or the young or rich or poor or dark or pale or he or she. Nothing for their struggles, nothing for their names. Nothing for the living or the dead.

The priest therefore saw what the anchorite could not. That God needs no witness. Neither to himself nor against. The truth is rather that if there were no God then there could be no witness for there could be no identity to the world but only each man's opinion of it. The priest saw that there is no man who is elect because there is no man who is not. To God every man is a heretic.

When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.

Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.

I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.

The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have the power to wake it.