Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.

There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not.

There's a responsibility in being a person. It's more than just taking up space where air would be.

But you can't start. Only a baby can start. You and me - why, we're all that's been. The anger of a moment, the thousand pictures, that's us. This land, this red land, is us; and the flood years and the dust years and the drought years are us. We can't start again.

With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.

I think everyone in the world to a large or small extent has felt rejection. And with rejection comes anger, and with anger some kind of crime in revenge for the rejection, and with the crime guilt- and there is the story of mankind.

Some men ease themselves like setting hens into the nest of death.