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.

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

It would take a hell of a wife to beat no wife at all.

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.

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

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

Usually, you don't know where a book comes from ... it's just there, some kind of an itch that you can't quite scratch.