It isn't like the rest of the country - it is like a nation itself - more tolerant than the rest in a curious way. Littleness gets swallowed up here. All the viciousness that makes other cities vicious is sucked up and absorbed in New York.

I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

You're getting well,' Samuel said. 'Some people think it's an insult to the glory of their sickness to get well. But the time poultice is no respecter of glories. Everyone gets well if he waits around.

When you're huntin' somepin you're a hunter, an' you're strong. Can't nobody beat a hunter. But when you get hunted - that's different. Somepin happens to you. You ain't strong: maybe you're fierce, but you ain't strong." - Muley

People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don't dream at all.

We could live offa the fatta the lan'.

Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.