When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

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

Sir, this is a unique dog. He does not live by tooth or fang. He respects the right of cats to be cats although he doesn't admire them. He turns his steps rather than disturb an earnest caterpillar. His greatest fear is that someone will point out a rabbit and suggest that he chase it. This is a dog of peace and tranquility.

Well, I git enough sorrow. I like to git away from it.

I suffer as always from the fear of putting down the first line. It is amazing the terrors, the magics, the prayers, the straitening shyness that assail one. It is as though the words were not only indelible but that they spread out like dye in water and color everything around them. A strange and mystic business, writing.

Well, I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy. I just like to know what your interest is.

For the most part people are not curious except about themselves.