Genius may be for an hour or a thousand years; its indispensable quality is continuity with the life-push.

Death by starvation is slow.

Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and at the end of it I came upon the Pocket Hunter making a dry camp in the friendly scrub.

When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of her experience.

Ride your emotions as the shallop rides the waves; don't get upset among them. There are people who enjoy getting swamped emotionally, just as, incredibly, there are people who enjoy getting drunk.

Some think that even the ancients who lived long before the present generation, and first framed accounts of the Gods, had a similar view of nature; for they made the Oceanus and Tethys the parents of creation, and described the oath of the Gods as being by water, to which they give the name of Styx; for what is oldest is most honourable, and the most honourable thing is that by which one swears

Man learned to resort to the dance when he felt helpless or fragmentary, when he felt dislocated in his universe.