I suppose you set up reading the Good Book all night-spoken by Woodrow Call

A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough. --Augustus "Gus" McCrae

From him to the stars, in all directions, there was only silence and emptiness.

I make my share of mistakes, but one I never make is to underestimate the power of things. People imbued from childhood with the myth of the primacy of feeling seldom like to admit they really want things as much as they might want love, but my career has convinced me that plenty of them do. And some want things a lot worse than they want love.

Self-parody is the first portent of age.

Death and worse happened on the plains.

Occasionally the very youngness of the young moved him to charity--they had no sense of the swiftness of life, nor of its limits. The years would pass like weeks, and loves would pass too, or else grow sour.