The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. When you reach the line which marks that drop - for convenience, the one…

- Bernard Devoto

History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance.

- Bernard Devoto

Between the amateur and the professional . . . there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within the function of his …

- Bernard Devoto

The best reason for putting anything down on paper is that one may then change it.

- Bernard Devoto

Let us candidly admit that there are shameful blemishes on the American past, of which the worst by far is rum. Nevertheless, we have improved man's …

- Bernard Devoto

When evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day's occupation that is known as the cocktail hour. It marks the lifeward turn. The heart …

- Bernard Devoto

The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was…

- Bernard Devoto

You can no more keep a Martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there.

- Bernard Devoto

Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough …

- Bernard Devoto