If you want one thing too much it’s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilk—and feisty gentlemen.

Death and worse happened on the plains.

The only bookstore I had was the paperback rack at the drugstore.

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

True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriend - and he accepts it

Part of the trick of being happy is a refusal to allow oneself to become too nostalgic for the heady triumphs of one's youth.

Uva uvum vivendo varia fit