I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation- a burning desire to go, to move, to get under way, anyplace, away from any Here. They spoke quietly of how they wanted to go someday, to move about, free and unanchored, not toward something but away from something. I saw this look and heard this yearning everywhere in every states I visited. Nearly every American hungers to move.

The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer.

A dying organism is often observed to be capable of extraordinary endurance and strength. .. When any living organism is attacked, its whole function seems to aim towards reproduction.

Again it might have been the American tendency in travel. One goes, not so much to see but to tell afterward.

There's nothing sadder to me than associations held together by nothing but the glue of postage stamps. If you can't see or hear or touch a man, it's best to let him go.

Only God sees the sparrow fall, but even God doesn't do anything about it.

The last clear definite function of man — muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need — this is man.