One pays for everything, the trick is not to pay too much of anything for anything.

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

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

Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess.

The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe. It's not only their unbelievable stature, nor the color which seems to shift and vary under your eyes, no, they are not like any trees we know, they are ambassadors from another time.

It was too nerve-wracking, a shocking spectacle, like seeing an old, calm friend go insane.

There is comfort in routine.