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

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

Anyway, whacking a surly bartender ain't much of a crime.

People would be bored shitless if they had to love only the good in someone they care about.

I once owned a collection of 77 novels that won the Pulitzer. The only good novel of the bunch was The Grapes of Wrath.

It's really quite simple. Mr. Isinglass robbed my father, destroyed my mother, exiled my brothers, and ruined me. If I catch him asleep I'll kill him. I do hope you like this pudding. I had to ride quite a way to find the plums.

A bookman’s love of books is a love of books, not merely of the information in them.