Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.

A question is a trap and an answer is your foot in it.

Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won't all be poor.

We gather our arms full of guilt as though it were precious stuff. It must be that we want it that way.

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.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

We think of strangers as stronger and better than we are.