The candle aimed its spark of light at heaven, like an artist who consumes himself to become divine.

I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

But you can't start over Only a boy can start over You and me Why, we're all that's been

Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.

This monster of a land, this mightiest of nations, this spawn of the future, turns out to be the macrocosm of microcosm me.

Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.

To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.