I guess if everybody went crazy together nobody would notice.

There's a difference between quittin and knowin when you're beat.

The notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous.

There was nothin to set a man's mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were.

I've always been interested in the Southwest. There isn't a place in the world you can go where they don't know about cowboys and Indians and the myth of the West.

Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself?

And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you? Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to ash instantly. Like certain ancient frescoes entombed for centuries suddenly exposed to the day.