If there is an occupational hazard to writing, it's drinking.

“Son, not everbody thinks that life on a cattle ranch in west Texas is the secon…”

“It was the nature of his profession that his experience with death should be gr…”

“Where man can't live gods fare no better. You'll see. It's better to be alone.”

“And the answer, said the judge. If God meant to interfere in the degeneracy of …”