-she remembered them kindly, for there was a sweetness in boys that didn't last long, once they became men.
Self-parody is the first portent of age.
Death and worse happened on the plains.
I think its a sickness to grieve too much for those who never cared a fig for you.
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.
You can scare off a lot of cowboys just by looking mean, I guess.