The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer.

Every man in a bank hates what the bank does and yet the bank does it.

I wonder why it is that when I plan a route too carefully, it goes to pieces, whereas if I blunder along in blissful ignorance aimed in a fancied direction I get through with no trouble.

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.

You stay out here a little while, an' if you smell any roses, you come let me smell, too.

You never oughta drink water when it ain't runnin'.

Fella says today, 'Depression is over. I seen a jackrabbit, an' they wasn't nobody after him.' An' another fella says, 'That aint the reason. Can't afford to kill jackrabbits no more. Catch 'em and milk 'em an' turn 'em loose. One you seen prob'ly gone dry.