I think of my life as a kind of music, not always good music but still having form and melody.

He said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god.

The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong.

One day we'll sit and you'll lay it out on the table, neat like a solitaire deck, but now - why, you can't find all the cards.

It occurs to me that just as the Carthaginians hired mercenaries to do their fighting for them, we Americans being in mercenaries to do our hard and humble work. I hope we may not be overwhelmed one day by peoples not too proud or too lazy or too soft to bend to the earth and pick up the things we eat.

The object of love is the best and most beautiful. Try to live up to it.

And the people listened, and their faces were quiet with listening. The story tellers, gathering attention into their tales, spoke in great rhythms, spoke in great words because the tales were great, and the listeners became great through them.