This was an evil beyond thinking. The killing of a man was not so evil as the killing of a boat. For a boat does not have sons, and a boat cannot protect itself, and a wounded boat does not heal.

The people say that the two seemed to be removed from human experience; that they had gone through pain and had come out on the other side.

It is the nature of a person as he/she grows older to protest against change, particularly changes for the better.

Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork.

All men are moral. Only their neighbors are not.

...no gift will ever buy back a man's love when you have removed his self-love.

The techniques of opening conversation are universal. I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention, help, and conversation is to be lost. A man who seeing his mother starving to death on a path kicks her in the stomach to clear the way, will cheerfully devote several hours of his time giving wrong directions to a total stranger who claims to be lost.