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

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.

Certainly on the vast windy plain, there was plenty of nothing to be looked at.

I'm glad I've been wrong enough to keep in practice. . . You can't avoid it, you've got to learn to handle it. If you only come face to face with your own mistakes once or twice in your life it's bound to be extra painful. I face mine every day--that way they ain't usually much worse than a dry shave.

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

Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.

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