I have seen too many men go down, and I never permit myself to forget that one day, through accident or under the charge of a younger, stronger knight, I too will go down.

And now the forces marshaled around the concept of the group have declared a war of extermination on that preciousness, the mind of man.

But you can't start. Only a baby can start. You and me - why, we're all that's been. The anger of a moment, the thousand pictures, that's us. This land, this red land, is us; and the flood years and the dust years and the drought years are us. We can't start again.

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.

The study of history, while it does not endow with prophecy, may indicate lines of probability.

Only God sees the sparrow fall, but even God doesn't do anything about it.

I'm back with my own kind of people here now, the bums and drinkers and no goods and it is a fine thing.