When there’s only God to blame, we forgive him. When it’s our fellow man, we destroy him.

He’d only ever seen a gun once, a smaller one on the hip of that old deputy, a gun he’d always figured was more for show. He stuffed a fistful of deadly rounds in his pocket, thinking how each one could end an individual life, and understanding why such things were forbidden. Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one’s conscience to get in the way.

My life is too tight, he wanted to say. My skin is too tight. The walls are too tight.

That's the problem with the truth," Darcy said. "Liars and honest men both claim to have it.

He thought of men like Hitler, Stalin, and Napoleon. All it took was a lot of seemingly decent people to put the wrong person in power and then fall under their spell.

Living frugally is one of the best things an author can do to prepare for their career.

We devolve into animals when we creep near to death.