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

The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer.

I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog.

Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.

The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe. It's not only their unbelievable stature, nor the color which seems to shift and vary under your eyes, no, they are not like any trees we know, they are ambassadors from another time.

'He's got a can up there,' Richard said.

It would be good to live in a perpetual state of leave-taking, never to go nor to stay, but to remain suspended in that golden emotion of love and longing; to be loved without satiety.