A man that will go along with six killings is making his escape a little slow.

I'm glad I've been wrong enough to keep in practice. . . You can't avoid it, you've got to learn to handle it. If you only come face to face with your own mistakes once or twice in your life it's bound to be extra painful. I face mine every day--that way they ain't usually much worse than a dry shave.

Certainly on the vast windy plain, there was plenty of nothing to be looked at.

They say money kinda melts when you take it across a border.

Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made.

If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.

There isn't a thought in my head I care to be alone with for more than five minutes.