It's a fine world, though rich in hardships at times.

I'm sure partial to the evening,' Augustus said. 'The evening and the morning. If we just didn't have to have the rest of the dern day I'd be a lot happier.

Mystery is underrated, and understanding is overrated.

If I had a mind to rent pigs, I'd be mighty upset. A man that likes to rent pigs won't be stopped.

The Western notion of masculinity goes back a long way. It doesn’t allow for women, and it’s also racist - it doesn’t allow for other cultures.

Working- and Middle-class families sat down at the dinner table every night - the shared meal was the touchstone of good manners. Indeed, that dinner table was the one time when we were all together, every day: parents, grandparents, children, siblings. Rudeness between siblings, or a failure to observe the etiquette of passing dishes to one another, accompanied by "please" and "thank you," was the training ground of behavior, the place where manners began.

You know Deets is like me - he's not one to quit on a garment just because it's got a little age - spoken by Augustus McCrae