The Mexican War was a training ground for generals, so that when the sad self-murders settled on us, the leaders knew the techniques for making it properly horrible.
When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.
I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.
There's more beauty in the truth even if it is dreadful beauty.
He never fell, never slipped back, never flew.
Luck or tragedy, some people get runs. Then of course there are those who divide it even, good and bad, but we never hear of them. Such a life doesn't demand attention. Only the people who get the good or bad runs.