He can kill anything for need but he could not even hurt a feeling for pleasure.

'He's got a can up there,' Richard said.

It doesn't matter that Cathy was what I have called a monster. Perhaps we can't understand Cathy, but on the other hand we are capable of many things in all directions, of great virtues and great sins. And who in his mind has not probed the black water?

I’m in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection. But with Montana it is love. And it’s difficult to analyze love when you’re in it.

The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It’s as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to prove whether he was good enough to get to California.

Show me the man who isn't interested in discussing himself.

I can still tend the rabbits, George? I didn't mean no harm, George.