When you're a child you're the center of everything. Everything happens for you. Other people? They're only ghosts furnished for you to talk to.

It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.

... you must not expect to find that people understand what they do.

Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.

To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.

One day we'll sit and you'll lay it out on the table, neat like a solitaire deck, but now - why, you can't find all the cards.

For the most part people are not curious except about themselves.