Brandon

“It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“I guess a man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, and then steps in it.”
― John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday

“It's all right not to believe in luck and omens. Nobody believes in them. But it doesn't do any good to take chances with them and no one takes chances.”
― John Steinbeck, Cannery Row

“All men grew old unless violence overtook them first; the plains offered no third way out of the predicament a man found himself in, simply by the fact of his existence on the face of the earth.”
― Alan LeMay, The Searchers