And now the forces marshaled around the concept of the group have declared a war of extermination on that preciousness, the mind of man.

The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads.

A study of animal communities has this advantage: they are merely what they are, for anyone to see who will and can look clearly; they cannot complicate the picture by worded idealisms, by saying one thing and being another; here the struggle is unmasked and the beauty is unmasked.

The clouds appeared and went away, and in a while they did not try anymore.

When the virus of restlessness begins to take possession of a wayward man, and the road away from Here seems broad and straight and sweet, the victim must first find himself a good and sufficient reason for going.

Men don't get knocked out, or I mean they can fight back against big things. What kills them is erosion; they get nudged into failure. They get slowly scared.[...]It's slow. It rots out your guts.

Misfortune is a fact of nature acceptable to women, especially when it falls on other women.