“Facts are lonely things”

“It was the time of year, the time of day, for a small insistent sadness to pass into the texture of things. Dusk, silence, iron chill. Something lonely in the bone.”

“...lonely-chrome America.”

“A fact is innocent until someone wants it; then it become intelligence.”

“In a crisis the true facts are whatever other people say they are.”

“[I]n the American soul there is a lonely individual standing in a vast landscape. 
He is either on a horse or driving a car, depending, and either way he’s carrying a gun. 
This is one of the essential images in American mythology.”

“There was something touching about the fact that Murray was dressed almost totally in corduroy.”