Talk's the way to kill it. Anything gets boring if you talk about it enough, even death.

In fact, July felt he had reached a point in his life where virtually nothing was known.

It’s a fine world, though rich in hardships at times,” Augustus said.

He knew what he could certainly do, and what he might do if he was lucky, and what he couldn’t do barring a miracle.

I'd hate to read all these books...that much reading could put your eyes out.

The crimes the law can understand are not the worst crimes.

. . . he had learned in his years of tracking Indians that things which seemed impossible often weren't. They only became so if one thought about them too much so that fear took over.

Death and worse happened on the plains.

You ought to take more chances," I said. "I took too many earlier," she said. "I'm sorry.

Dern, I hate cooking with shit. -- Augustus McCrae to Lorena Wood

There would be a trial, of course. But I had watched a few trials in Thalia, and I had seen people a lot dumber than Hud get away with a lot worse than what he did.

I just got gang-egged, or egg-banged or something." --Sheriff Toots Burns.

And it’s the only whorehouse in town. They say if you can sprout up twelve inches of dick you get to fuck free.

Listening to women ain't the fashion in this part of the country."--Augustus McCrae

Little by little, the look of the land changes by the men we admire.

I sometimes think the sexual organs were put there to keep the human race humble," she said. "They've certainly kept me humble.

Razzy was insulting me silently somehow.

At times he felt that he had almost rather not be in love with her, for it brought him no peace. What was the use of it, if it was only going to be painful?

This is a damn useless conversation. Goodbye. (Charles Goodnight to Woodrow Call)

Incompetents invariably made trouble for people other than themselves.

-she remembered them kindly, for there was a sweetness in boys that didn't last long, once they became men.

Buffalo Hump knew his son was brave, but that was not enough. If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long.

Monkey John looked at the dead boy. "By God, life is cheap up here on the goddamned Canadian River." "Cheap," Blue Duck answered. "And it might get cheaper.

My main skills are talking and cooking biscuits,' Augustus said. 'And getting drunk on the porch.