The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads.

They're a dark people with a gift for suffering way past their deserving. It's said that without whiskey to soak and soften the world, they'd kill themselves. (Irish)

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

Doc tips his hat to dogs as he drives by and the dogs look up and smile at him.

I should have known I am the rain. I am the land and I am the rain. The grass will grow out of me in a little while.

If a man ordered a beer milk shake, he thought, he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known.

It must be a hard thing to kill a man you don't know and don't hate.