Larry McMurtry

A sleeping man would miss the best of the evening, and the moonrise as well.

A man that sleeps all night wastes too much of life.

Getting up early and feeling awake was the one skill he had never truly perfected - he got up, of course, but it never felt natural.

It doesn't do to sacrifice for people unless they want you to.

How about a kiss?___re you man enough to try?_ she asked.

Once started, love couldn't easily be stopped.

The years would pass like weeks, and loves would pass too, or else grow sour.

Me and Call have always liked to get where we started for, even if it don't make a damn bit of sense.

It's happiness to see you.

It was a weakness, but he could not bear to disappoint women, even if it was ultimately for their own good.

It seemed to him there was never much time with women. Before you could look at one twice, you were into an argument, and they were telling you what was going to happen.

Could any woman live every day with that level of masculinity?

She had a beautiful face, a beautiful body, but also a distance in her such as he had never met a woman.

The crimes the law can understand are not the worst crimes.

It's just that it's fearsome for a man to have a woman start thinking right in front of him. It always leads to trouble.

If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.

Of all the women he knew, she had meant the most; and was the one person in his life he felt he had missed, in some ways.