I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.

Father and son are natural enemies and each is happier and more secure in keeping it that way.

There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not.

George's voice became deeper. He repeated his words rhythmically as though he had said them many times before. 'Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don't belong no place. They come to a ranch an' work up a stake, and the first thing you know they're poundin' their tail on some other ranch. They ain't got nothing to look ahead to.

A question is a trap and an answer is your foot in it.

If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.

(Suicide) takes some doing, with maybe pain and maybe hell.