He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it.

It's the tide. It's the dismal tide. It's not the one thing.

Word gets around when the circus comes to town, don't it?

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.

Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.

I was afraid I was goin to die and then I was afraid I wasnt.

The flames sawed in the wind and the embers paled and deepened and paled and deepened like the bloodbeat of some living thing eviscerate upon the ground before them and they watched the fire which does contain within it something of men themselves inasmuch as they are less without it and are divided from their origins and are exiles. For each fire is all fires, and the first fire and the last ever to be.