Some men are heroes by nature in that they will give all that is in them without regard to the effort or to the personal returns.

Sometimes this fellow's music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.

The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.

The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many. The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved. The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.

When a person knows and can't make the others understand, what does he do?

The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.

The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person. All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.