When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing.

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

A good writer always works at the impossible.There is another kind who pulls in his horizons, drops his mind as one lowers rifle sights.

Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork.

We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say — and to feel — "Yes, that’s the way it is, or at least that’s the way I feel it. You’re not as alone as you thought."

In writing, habit seems to be a much stronger force than either willpower or inspiration.

When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing.