Larry Watson

"The sergeant's widow told you a lie when she said I flogged her. I never flogged her. She flogged herself."

"Sir Henry Wotton used to say that critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes."

"If a man own land, the land owns him."

"I know that the earth was new, but I didn't realize that it wasn't finished yet."

"Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with."

"The key to understanding overpopulation is not population density but the numbers of people in an area rela…"