They have a long life, dreams. I have dreams now which I had as a young girl. They have an odd durability for something not quite real.""Do you think they mean anything?"She looked surprised. "Oh...

In an ideal world the gossip of the idle would be of no consequence. But I have seen the consequences in the real world and they can be very grave indeed.

When the truck finally pulled out and they saw him still standing they offered their bundles for him to sit on and he did so and he nodded and dozed to the hum of the tires on the blacktop and the...

Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I'd made before it. You understand what I'm sayin?

She raised her eyes and looked at him. He'd never seen despair before. He thought he had, but he had not.

There was nothing along the road save the country it traversed and there was nothing in the country at all.

It came boring out of the east like some ribald satellite of the coming sun howling and bellowing in the distance and the long light of the headlamp running through the tangled mesquite brakes and...

It is supposed to be true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don't believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood...

In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not....

When I was in school I studied biology. I learned that in making their experiments scientists will take some group - bacteria, mice, people - and subject that group to certain conditions. They compare...

He remembered Alejandra and the first time he had seen his curved shoulders for sadness, a sadness he had believed to understand but of which he had not understood anything, and he felt only as he...

In history there are no control groups and nobody can say what would have happened otherwise. We cry thinking about what could have happened in place of what happened, but this eventuality does not...

The coin is only an iron rod of the mint that the coiner takes from the pile and puts under the coinage in one of the two possible verses. On that act it depends everything else, dear Y Cruz,...

The present is the most precious time

I have always wondered if the fold taken from our life exists from the beginning if instead life is made of random events in which we identify a thread only a posteriori

.. no creature can learn what his heart is not predisposed to learn

He rode all night and in the first gray light with the horse badly drawn down he walked it out upon a rise beneath which he could make out the shape of the town, the yellow windows in the old mud...

In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure, death will. The world is quite ruthless in selection between the dream and the reality, even where we will not....

You won't let me plead my cause....

I've no sympathy with people to whom things happen. It may be that their luck is bad, but is that to count in their favor? I

The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not. Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

My daddy used to tell me not to chew on somethin that was eatin you. Yessir.

You think you can believe in heaven if you dont believe in hell? I guess you can believe what you want to. Rawlins

The names of entities that have the power to constrain us change with time. Convention and authority are replaced by infirmity.

I dont know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she should live in it. I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful it...

I've been at some pains to tell you about myself because among other reasons I think we should know who our enemies are. I've known people to spend their lives nursing a hatred of phantoms and they...

I dont believe knowing can save us. What isconstant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood and this is a thing that even God-who knows all that can be known-seems powerless to change.

The night was cold and clear and the sparks rising from the fire raced hot and red among the stars.

There seemed insufficient substance to him to be the object of men's wrath. There seemed nothing about him sufficient to fuel any enterprise at all.

He'd bivouacked on the north side of the town