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.

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

Nobody run off with her,” Roscoe said. "She just run off with herself, I guess.

No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.

Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back.

It ain’t dying I’m talking about, it’s living. I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live.” ~spoken by Augustus McCrae

Listening to women ain't the fashion in this part of the country.