Dear Lord,' he said. 'let me be like Aron. Don’t make me mean. I don’t want to be. If you will let everybody like me, why, I’ll give you anything in the world, and if I haven’t got it, why, I’ll go for to get it. I don’t want to be mean. I don’t want to be lonely. For Jesus’ sake, Amen.

It don't cost money to ask.

I'll want to hear,' Samuel said. 'I eat stories like grapes.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

A good writer always works at the impossible.There is another kind who pulls in his horizons, drops his mind as one lowers rifle sights.

Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world, of all living things.

Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.