There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers.

I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

You can boast about anything if it's all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.

Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of a human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed

To be alive at all is to have scars.

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.

You're going to pass something down no matter what you do or if you do nothing. Even if you let yourself go fallow, the weeds will grow and the brambles. Something will grow.