I'm glad I've been wrong enough to keep in practice. . . You can't avoid it, you've got to learn to handle it. If you only come face to face with your own mistakes once or twice in your life it's bound to be extra painful. I face mine every day--that way they ain't usually much worse than a dry shave.

The reason men are so awful is because some woman has spoiled them.

Nobody run off with her,” Roscoe said. "She just run off with herself, I guess.

From him to the stars, in all directions, there was only silence and emptiness.

Occasionally the very youngness of the young moved him to charity--they had no sense of the swiftness of life, nor of its limits. The years would pass like weeks, and loves would pass too, or else grow sour.

It's a fine world, though rich in hardships at times.

Live through it," Call said. "That's all we can do.