Here in Florida the seasons move in and out like nuns in soft clothing, making no rustle in their passing.

the truth is artistically fallacious.

A dead tree, falling, made less havoc than a live one. It seemed as though a live tree went down fighting, like an animal.

You can't change a man, no-ways. By the time his mummy turns him loose and he takes up with some innocent woman and marries her, he's what he is.

Garlic, like perfume, must be used with discretion and on the proper occasions.

They were all too tightly bound together, men and women, creatures wild and tame, flowers, fruits and leaves, to ask that any one be spared. As long as the whole continued, the earth could go about its business.

It's very important to be just to other people. It takes years and years of living to learn that injustice against oneself is always unimportant.