One must withdraw for a time from life in order to set down that picture.

Any man of reasonable intelligence can make money if that's what he wants. Mostly it's women or clothes or admiration he really wants and they deflect him.

They're a dark people with a gift for suffering way past their deserving. It's said that without whiskey to soak and soften the world, they'd kill themselves. (Irish)

Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.

There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp.

He learned that when people are very poor they still have something to give and the impulse to give it.

To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.