Quotes from Larry McMurtry

The reason men are so awful is because some woman has spoiled them.

But just let me tell you something, son, a woman's love is like the morning dew, it's just as apt to settle on a horse turd as it is on a rose. So you better just get over it.

Listening to women ain't the fashion in this part of the country.

Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made.

Self-parody is the first portent of age.

You know Deets is like me - he's not one to quit on a garment just because it's got a little age - spoken by Augustus McCrae

Maybe you can make art out of unredeemed pain, but only if you're a genius -- Dostoyevsky perhaps.

Death and worse happened on the plains.

True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriend - and he accepts it