381 Quotes by Larry McMurtry

The sensible way, which he had pursued once or twice in his life, had always proved boring, usually within a few days.

Occasionally the very youngness of the young moved him to charity – they had no sense of the swiftness of life, nor of its limits. The years would pass like weeks, and loves would pass too, or else grow sour.

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

Without risk there was no power, not for a grown man.

The reason I’m so crazy is because nobody cares anything about me. I don’t guess there’s anybody I care much about, either. It’s my own fault, though – I haven’t had the guts to try and do anything about it.

I’ll pass on snow myself, when I have the option.

Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It’s not easy even to get a rural story made.

No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won’t start.

Better by far never to have known the pleasure than to have the pain that followed.