He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.

Just take me with you. Please. I cant. Please, Papa. I cant. I cant hold my son dead in my arms. I thought I could but I cant.

There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both.

Not all dying words are true and this blessing is no less real for being shorn of its ground.

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.

The night sky lies so sprent with stars that there is scarcely space of black at all and they fall all night in bitter arcs and it is so that their numbers are no less.

War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.