You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

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

If you want to keep a friend, never test him.

When a condition or a problem becomes too great, humans have the protection of not thinking about it. But it goes inward and minces up with a lot of other things already there and what comes out is discontent and uneasiness, guilt and a compulsion to get something--anything--before it is all gone.

How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can't scare him--he has known a fear beyond every other.

A woman holds dreadful power over a man who is in love with her but she should realize that the quality and force of his love is the index of his potential contempt and hatred.

The land is so much more than its analysis.