"Cities of the Plain" Quotes

You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow.

Every living thing on this earth is a survivor. Life is a force that is unrelenting.

The world has no name. The names of the cerros and the sierras and the deserts exist only on maps. We name them that we do not lose our way.

A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but he dont want to. Rightly so. Best not to look in there.

There's a strange freedom in having nothing left to lose.

The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.

You aint just whistlin Dixie.

Death is always on the way, but the fact that you don't know when it will arrive seems to take away from the finiteness of life. It's that terrible precision that we hate so much. But because we don't know, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well.

You dont need to keep score, kid. You can put it down.

You have to carry the fire.