Gunslinger Quotes

A few of the gunslingers dance, but only a few. And they were the young ones. The other ones only sat, and it seemed to me they were half embarrassed in all that light, that civilized light.

They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.

There was murder, there was rape, there were unspeakable practices, and all of them were for the good, the bloody good, the bloody myth, for the grail, for the Tower.

...and still the hands did their trick, like over-eager dogs that want to do their rolling—over trick for you not once or twice but all night.

Misery suffered did not justify misery to come.

Do you believe in an afterlife?" the gunslinger asked him as Brown dropped three ears of hot corn onto his plate.Brown nodded. "I think this is it.

Once again there was the desert, and that only.

The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles.

the man in black travels with your soul in his pocket.

The woman who preaches has poison religion. Let the respectable ones go

I think we may have reached the point where guns need to be confiscated from police officers.

Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.

They were close to the end of the beginning . . .

The trap had a ghastly perfection

She wanted to savor him slowly like a lemon cream pie on a lazy summer day. One bite at a time.