Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? ...Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.

Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans

Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world

Well, I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy. I just like to know what your interest is.

A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory

I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.

I guess this is why I hate governments, all governments. It is always the rule, the fine print, carried out by fine-print men. There's nothing to fight, no wall to hammer with frustrated fists.