Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)

by Larry McMurtry

He didn’t tell him that even when life seemed easy, it kept on getting harder.

He had known several men who blew their heads off, and he had pondered it much. It seemed to him it was probably because they could not take enough happiness just from the sky and the moon to carry them over the low feelings that came to all men.

“It ain’t dying I’m talking about, it’s living,” Augustus said. “I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live.”