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

-she remembered them kindly, for there was a sweetness in boys that didn't last long, once they became men.

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.

Americans' lack of passion for history is well known. History may not quite be bunk, as Henry Ford suggested, but there's no denying that, as a people, we sustain a passionate concentration on the present and the future.

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

If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long.