381 Quotes by Larry McMurtry

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.

You have to remember that I’ve been lonely for a long time. Loneliness is like ice. After you’ve been lonely long enough you don’t realize you’re cold, but you are... I don’t know, maybe at the center of me there’s some ice that never will melt, maybe it’s just been there too long. But you mustn’t worry. You didn’t put it there.

You better introduce yourself before you start talking Latin.

Po Campo had given him a hailstone dipped in molasses and he sat licking it and feeling alternately happy and sad while the men got dressed and prepared to be cowboys again.

The first difference Newt noticed about being grown up was that time didn’t pass as slow.

It was something, what must go through men’s mind where women were concerned, to cause them to behave so strangely.

No, but I have passed the point in life where I expect to be satisfied,” Augustus said. “At least I don’t expect to be satisfied with much. When it comes right down to it, Woodrow, I guess my own cooking beats anything I’ve come across in this life.

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.

He was annoyed with his mind – it would be a lot easier to do his task well if his mind would just behave and not keep making him scared.