Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white!

Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night

My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky.