In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved.

When the virus of restlessness begins to take possession of a wayward man, and the road away from Here seems broad and straight and sweet, the victim must first find himself a good and sufficient reason for going.

I know people who are so immersed in road maps that they never see the countryside they pass through, and others who, having traced a route, are held to it as though held by flanged wheels to rails.

They must be real people. And this means that every word in every line of speech must be accurate and full of some kind of meaning which stretches not only forward in the book but stems from before in the book.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.

Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork.