[He] fell right into the oldest conviction in the world-- that the girl you are in love with can't possibly be anything but true and honest.

(Suicide) takes some doing, with maybe pain and maybe hell.

And the people listened, and their faces were quiet with listening. The story tellers, gathering attention into their tales, spoke in great rhythms, spoke in great words because the tales were great, and the listeners became great through them.

[He] fell right into the oldest conviction in the world-- that the girl you are in love with can't possibly be anything but true and honest.

If a man ordered a beer milk shake, he thought, he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known.

Anything that just costs money is cheap.

So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them out.