“Here is another miserable mental image I will have to catalog and make room for.”

“He stood there weeping and watching us go, while behind him Lucky Paul entered and collapsed the prospector's tent, and I thought, Here is another miserable mental image I will have to catalog and make room for.”

“I thought, When a man is properly drunk it is as though he is an a room by himself--there is a physical, impenetrable separation between him and his fellows.”

“...things I had come to find humor in would make your honest man swoon.”

“This moment, this one position in time, was the happiest I will ever be as long as I am living. I have since felt it was too happy, that men are not meant to have access to this kind of satisfaction; certainly it has tempered every moment of happiness I have experienced since.”

“i don't suppose I have a choice.''As with so many things in a life, brother, I don't suppose you do.”

“I almost vomited in the boot! I was just about to vomit in the boot! Can you imagine how upset I would have been?”