Maybe he was what Lucian would have turned out to be if the old sheriff hadn’t have lived in such interesting times. A couple of years in a Japanese prison camp might be just what Turk needed. But I didn’t have a bridge over the river Kwai for him to build so we had to settle for Powder Junction.

All the important promises are about leaving or not leaving.

Dog’s ears went up at the word “ham”: they say dogs have a vocabulary of about twenty words, and I was pretty sure that seventeen of Dog’s were ham.

I flattered myself by thinking that, if faced with such a circumstance, I would respond within the letter of the law; but passion is a strange thing, a thing that warps and twists everything with which it comes in contact.

I have found in most relationships with women it is best to remember their birthdays but forget their age.

Life is like that.” He flipped through a few more limp pages. “You collect things as you go – the things you think are important – and soon they weigh you down until you realize that these things you cared so much about mean nothing at all. Our natures are our natures.” He grunted. “And they are all we are left with.

If you pull it, use it, if you use it, use it to kill.

His face remained immobile as he shut the door and walked back against the traffic. “No, they are not.” Dog immediately jumped into the.

I saw me every day, and I wasn’t so sure I was that fond of my company.

Maybe there really isn’t any such thing as mortality; life simply wears us out with love.