Sex and violence … are the two great engines of the world.
He would know a number of grown women in his life who did not possess even a small portion of the grace his middle sister owned at the age of fourteen.
The only things you can ever truly own cannot be bought with money.
Some of us are always in the borderlands no matter where we might be on the map.
Pride has traditionally been regarded as the foremost of the Seven Deadly Sins, but it has rather obviously been overtaken by Greed.
We don’t permit anyone to tell us our business, nor do we wish to tell anyone his. The same goes for moral outlooks. Don’t tread on us and we won’t on you. We’re a tolerant, liberty-loving bunch, we Wolfes.
There’s an old saying,” Buck said. “A hundred things can go wrong in a holdup, and if you can think of fifty of them you’re a damn genius.
He finally comprehended that the sole impossibility regarding human sorrow is to arrive at some unsurpassable limit to it.
You do not tell people to go fuck themselves and then later when you’re in trouble ask them to help you.
The greatest tragedy that can befall a man is never to know who he really is.
If the devil ever raised a garden, the Everglades was it.
A man who can laugh at himself is truly blessed, for he will never lack for amusement.
Just because it’s a world of thieves out there don’t mean there ain’t no rules to it.
Without the right to defend yourself–and the right to possesss the means to do it–all other supposed rights are so much hot air.