When the virus of restlessness begins to take possession of a wayward man, and the road away from Here seems broad and straight and sweet, the victim must first find himself a good and sufficient reason for going.

An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.

Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes it'll on'y be one.

But most important of all, the truth, that dangerous stuff, became beautiful and more precious.

Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys?

You can't slice up morals.

When you're huntin' somepin you're a hunter, an' you're strong. Can't nobody beat a hunter. But when you get hunted - that's different. Somepin happens to you. You ain't strong: maybe you're fierce, but you ain't strong." - Muley