Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

Orange and speckled and fluted nudibranchs slide gracefully over the rocks, their skirts waving like the dresses of Spanish dancers.

Don't you dare take the lazy way. It's too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry. Don't let me catch you doing it! Now -- look close at me so you will remember. Whatever you do, it will be you who do.

Don't you love Jesus?' Well, I thought an' I thought an' finally I says, 'No, I don't know nobody name' Jesus. I know a bunch of stories, but I only love people.

I know a little bit about a great many things and not enough about any one to make a living in these times.

If a man ordered a beer milk shake, he thought, he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known.