“I got no use for a man piss backwards on his friends.”

“If a man's at odds to know his own mind it's because he hasn't got aught but his mind to know it with.”

“They sat on a bench and Sproule held his wounded arm to his chest and rocked back and forth and blinked in the sun. What do you want to do? said the kid.Get a drink of water.Other than that.I dont know.You want to try and head back?To Texas?I don't know where else.We'd never make it.Well you say.I aint got no say.He was coughing again. He held his chest with his good hand and sat as if he'd get his breath. What have you got, a cold?I got consumption.Consumption?He nodded. I come out here for my health.”

“Wrinkle not thy sable brow at me, my friend. All will be known to you at last. To you as to every man.”

“a bad map is worse than no map at all for it engendered in the traveler a false confidence and might easily cause him to set aside these instincts which would otherwise guide him if he would but place himself in their care. He said that to follow a false map was to invite disaster. He gestured at the sketching in the dirt. As if to invite them to behold its futility. The second man on the bench nodded his agreement in this and said that the map in question was a folly and that the dogs in the street would piss upon it.”

“This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.”

“I ain't got an original thought in my head. If it ain't got the scent of divinity to it, I ain't interested in it”