For the most part people are not curious except about themselves.

I should have known I am the rain. I am the land and I am the rain. The grass will grow out of me in a little while.

Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music.

The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.

A large drop of sun lingered on the horizon and then dripped over and was gone, and the sky was brilliant over the spot where it had gone, and a torn cloud, like a bloody rag, hung over the spot of its going. And dusk crept over the sky from the eastern horizon, and darkness crept over the land from the east.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.