It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.

There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not.

If I was alone I could live so easy. I could go get a job an' work, an' no trouble.

Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.

The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It’s as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to prove whether he was good enough to get to California.

The words are meaningless except in terms of feeling. Does anyone act as the result of thought or does feeling stimulate action and sometimes thought implement it.

I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.