Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident or human frailty, is uniformly good and uniformly tasteless, so will our speech become one speech.

I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now--only that place where the books are kept.

It doesn't matter that Cathy was what I have called a monster. Perhaps we can't understand Cathy, but on the other hand we are capable of many things in all directions, of great virtues and great sins. And who in his mind has not probed the black water?

If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it 'cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and if he's poor in hisself, there ain't no million acres gonna make him feel rich, an' maybe he's disappointed that nothin' he can do 'll make him feel rich.

The trash and litter of nature disappears into the ground with the passing of each year, but man's litter has more permanence.

You got to live before you can afford to die.

Change was everywhere. People were gone, or changed, and that was almost like being gone.