Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.

It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.

Says he foun' he jus' got a little piece of a great big soul. Says a wilderness ain't no good, 'cause his little piece of a soul wasn't no good 'less it was with the rest, an' was whole.

If I was alone I could live so easy. I could go get a job an' work, an' no trouble.

A question is a trap and an answer is your foot in it.

I'm back with my own kind of people here now, the bums and drinkers and no goods and it is a fine thing.

I think bullfights are for men who aren't very brave and wish they were.