Each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins.

The things I believed in dont exist any more. It's foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see it. I see it now.

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.

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.

Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.

Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.

Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.