True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriend - and he accepts it

I think its a sickness to grieve too much for those who never cared a fig for you.

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.

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.

Call saw that everyone was looking at him, the hands and cowboys and townspeople alike. The anger had drained out of him, leaving him feeling tired. He didn't remember the fight, particularly, but people were looking at him as if they were stunned. He felt he should make some explanation, though it seemed to him a simple situation. "I hate a man that talks rude," he said. "I won't tolerate it.

Self-parody is the first portent of age.

Maybe you can make art out of unredeemed pain, but only if you're a genius -- Dostoyevsky perhaps.