Writing is a form of herding. I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters.

Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.

A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough. --Augustus "Gus" McCrae

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

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.

Books can accommodate the proximity of computers but it doesn't seem to work the other way around. Computers now literally drive out books from the place that should, by definition, be books' own home: the library.

A man that will go along with six killings is making his escape a little slow.