We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.

I do want to make it very convincing. And the best way to do that is to put most of it in dialogue.

I'm back with my own kind of people here now, the bums and drinkers and no goods and it is a fine thing.

Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, believing nothing we cannot measure or weigh. I know beyond all doubt that the dark things crowding in on me either did not exist or were not dangerous to me, and still I was afraid.

A man may have lived all of his life in the gray, and the land and trees of him dark and somber. The events, the important ones, may have trooped by faceless and pale. And then-the glory-so that a cricket song sweetens his ears, the smell of the earth rises chanting to his nose, and dappling light under a tree blesses his eyes. Then a man pours outward, a torrent of him, and yet he is not diminished.

The last clear definite function of men—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need—this is man.