It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal.

Any time you're throwin dirt you're losin ground.

Creedless shells of men tottering down the causeways like migrants in a feverland.

Query: How does the never to be differ from what never was?

What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream

A goodlookin horse is like a goodlookin woman, he said. They're always more trouble than what they're worth. What a man needs is just one that will get the job done.

He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world’s heart beat at some terrible cost and that the world’s pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately be exacted for the vision of a single flower.