Nor does God whisper through the trees. His voice is not to be mistaken. When men hear it they fall to their knees and their souls are riven and they cry out to Him and there is no fear but only wildness of heart that springs from such longing.

The point is there ain't no point.

The societies to which I have been exposed seemed to me largely machines for the suppression of women.

A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill. Any man who could discover his own fate and elect therefore some opposite course could only come at last to that selfsame reckoning at the same appointed time, for each man's destiny is as large as the world he inhabits and contains within it all opposites as well. The desert upon which so many have been broken is vast and calls for largeness of heart but it is also ultimately empty. It is hard, it is barren. Its very nature is stone.

There's a difference between quittin and knowin when you're beat.

I guess you ought to be careful about cussin the dead. I would say at the least there probably ain't no luck in it.

This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war.