A farmer's got to be born, same as a fool. You can't make a corn pone out of flour dough by the twistin' of it.

Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.

What fools people are when they think they can make two lives belong together by saying words over them.

Most women want their youth back again; but I wouldn't have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.

The government's like a mule, it's slow and it's sure; it's slow to turn, and it's sure to turn the way you don't want it.

Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of identity, in a perpetual maze of seeking and of finding, of passion and of disillusion, of vague longings and of nameless griefs, of pity that is a blade in the heart, and of 'all the little emptiness of love.

Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.