Cormac McCarthy

....A goodlookin horse is like a goodlookin woman, he said. They’re always more trouble than what they’re worth. What a man needs is just one that will get the job done.

Word gets around when the circus comes to town, dont it?

He said we were full of shit. But in a nice way.

I dont see you holdin no aces.

I never knowed there was such a place as this.

I guess there’s probably every kind of place you can think of.

What good do you think it does to waller all over a horse thataway? said Rawlins.

I dont know, said John Grady. I aint a horse.

The old man … said … the notion that men can be understood was probably an illusion.

When they went down to the bunkhouse for dinner the vaqueros seemed to treat them with a certain deference but whether it was the deference accorded the accomplished or that accorded to mental defectives they were unsure.

You are the oveja negra, no? The black sheep?

He lay in the dark thinking of all the things he did not know about his father and he realised that the father he knew was all the father he would ever know.

You think about all that stuff that can happen to you, he said. There aint no end to it.

Anybody can be a pendejo, said John Grady. That just means asshole.