💬 Quotes

"It is no shame to have a dirty face—the shame comes when you keep it dirty."

"Everything is connected, but the connections are often written in blood and kept in jars."

"Four shotgun blasts that, all told, ended six human lives. But afterward the whispering silences of the rooms, the tracts of prairie, the fences, where in autumn the wind hums in the singing wires."

"I didn't want to harm the man. I thought he was a very nice gentleman. Soft-spoken. I thought so right up to the moment I cut his throat."

"As far as I'm concerned, it's just like shooting a deer. A few hours later, I didn't even feel it. I didn't care."

"On a field, sable, the letter A, gules."

"Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred!"

"It may serve, let us hope, to symbolize some sweet moral blossom that may be found along the track, or relieve the darkening close of a tale of human frailty and sorrow."

"She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness... Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places, where she roamed as freely as the wild Indian in his woods."

"What we did had a consecration of its own. We felt it so! We said so to each other!"

"No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true."

"The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown."

"We are all puppets, Laurie. I’m just a puppet who can see the strings."

"Never compromise. Not even in the face of Armageddon."

"Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends."

"A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there is no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts."

"The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, loved an open window."

"The American landscape is not merely a physical setting; it is a cultural construct, shaped by the tension between the vastness of the frontier and the human desire to impose order upon it."

"To gaze upon the American wilderness is to confront the sublime—an aesthetic experience that simultaneously suggests the power of the divine and the terrifying vulnerability of the human observer."

"The history of the American landscape is a history of transformation, where every acre cleared or monument erected reflects a deeper philosophical shift in how we perceive our relationship to the earth."