I've liked life well enough, but I reckon I'll like death even better as soon as I've gotten used to the feel of it. ... I shouldn't be amazed to find it less lonely than life after I'm once safely settled.

I've liked life well enough, but I reckon I'll like death even better as soon as I've gotten used to the feel of it. ... I shouldn't be amazed to find it less lonely than life after I'm once safely settled.

Of one thing alone I am very sure: it is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive the more fugitive memory of fulfillment.

The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.

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.

anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.

... to be "literary" appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.