When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, our snow, began to stretch out beside us and twinkle against the windows, and the dim lights of small Wisconsin stations moved by, a sharp wild brace came suddenly into the air. That's my middle-west - not the wheat or the prairies or the lost Swede towns, but the thrilling returning trains of my youth and the street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark and the shadows of holly wreaths thrown by lighted windows on the snow.

The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.

A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth.

Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.

but they were frightened at his survivant will, once a will to live, now become a will to die.

Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves.

The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at sometime, and because it seemed romantic to me I have remembered the incident ever since.