Larry McMurtry Quotes

But the sorrowing are nomads, on a plain with few landmarks and no boundaries; sorrow’s horizons are vague and its demands are few.

‘We’ll be the Indians, if we last another twenty years,’ Augustus said. ‘The way this place is settling up it’ll be nothing but churches and dry-goods stores before you know it. Next thing you know they’ll have to round up us old rowdies and stick us on a reservation to keep us from scaring the ladies.’

The Last Picture Show.

Self-parody is the first portent of age.