Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of the seasons, the waves beat out the passage of time on the rocks and the tides rise and fall as a great clepsydra.

Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.

All of them had a restlessness in common.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

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.

Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of a human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed

You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.