Give me a used Bible and I will, I think, be able to tell you about a man by the places that are edged with the dirt of seeking fingers.

In the streets of New York between seven and nine in the morning you will see the slow procession of dog and downer proceeding from street to tree to hydrant to trash basket. They are apartment dogs. They are taken out twice a day, and, while it is a cliché, it is truly amazing how owner and dog resemble each other. They grow to walk alike and have the same set of head.

He said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god.

Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world

Saints can spring from any soil.

That man who is more then his elements knows the land that is more than its analysis.

Sometimes when she was alone, and she knew she was alone, she permitted her mind to play in a garden, and she smiled.