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.

I guess if everybody went crazy together nobody would notice.

What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.

He didn't say a lot so I tend to remember what he did say. And I don't remember that he had a lot of patience with havin to say things twice so I learned to listen the first time.

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.

He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength.

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