A good writer always works at the impossible.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort.

He saw something that makes a man doubtful of the constancy of the realities outside himself. It was the shocking discovery that makes a man wonder if I've missed this, what else have I failed to see?

Why do men like me want sons? he wondered. It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls that these new men, who are their blood, will do the things they were not strong enough nor wise enough nor brave enough to do. It is rather like another chance at life; like a new bag of coins at a table of luck after your fortune is gone.

When you're huntin' somepin you're a hunter, an' you're strong. Can't nobody beat a hunter. But when you get hunted - that's different. Somepin happens to you. You ain't strong: maybe you're fierce, but you ain't strong." - Muley

I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog.