I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog.

The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.

A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was no need for a man.

There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.

Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn’t return it you get mad at him. It makes you mean and petty. But twenty-five cent books are different.

A guy needs somebody―to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya, I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick.

Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.