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.

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

Live through it," Call said. "That's all we can do.

The lives of happy people are dense with their own doings -- crowded, active, thick. But the sorrowing are nomads, on a plain with few landmarks and no boundaries; sorrow's horizons are vague and its demands are few.

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

I don't see how being married could be any worse than listening to you talk for twenty years, but that still ain't much of a recommendation for it.

I never met a soul in this world as normal as me.