Here is another miserable mental image I will have to catalog and make room for..

I thought, When a man is properly drunk it is as though he is an a room by himself--there is a physical, impenetrable separation between him and his ….

He only wished to fight and cultivate an anger toward me, thus alleviating his guilt, but I would not abet him in this..

This perhaps was what lay at the root of the hysteria surrounding what came to be known as the Gold Rush: Men desiring a feeling of fortune; the unlu….

I will admit he is unusual, but that is perhaps the closest I could come to complimenting him..

Returning his pen to its holder, he told us, 'I will have him gutted with that scythe. I will hang him by his own intestines.' At this piece of drama….

Luck was something you either earned or invented through strength of character. You had to come by it honestly; you could not trick or bluff your way….

Most people are chained to their own fear and stupidity and haven’t the sense to level a cold eye at just what is wrong with their lives. Most people….

He is not bad, I don't think. Perhaps he is simply too lazy to be good..

It is hard to find a friend,' I said. 'It is the hardest thing in this world,' he agreed..

...but I could not sleep without proper covering and spent the rest of the night rewriting lost arguments from my past, altering history so that I em….

Our blood is the same, we just use it differently..

You put a wage behind something, it gives the act a sort of respectability..

All you will get from me is death..

I sighed. ‘It doesn’t matter what we do. Money comes and goes.’ I shook my head. ‘It doesn’t matter and you know it doesn’t..

The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know..

I lay in the dark thinking about the difficulties of family, how crazy and crooked the stories of a bloodline can be..

It is true, I thought. I am living a life..

Mayfield said, "You asked what I was thinking. Well, I will tell you. I was thinking that a man like myself, after suffering such a blow as you men h….

...things I had come to find humor in would make your honest man swoon..

I will never be a leader of men, and neither do I want to be one, and neither do I want to be led. I thought: I want to lead only myself..