We could see the children's toys here and there, and we saw a game that the children had made themselves out of dirt, deer antlers and abalone shells, but the game was so strange that only children could tell what it was. Perhaps it wasn't a game at all, only the grave of a game.

There are seductions that should be in the Smithsonian Institute, right next to The Spirit of St. Louis.

God-forsaken is beautiful, too.

Her sunny side was always up.

Elizabeth's voice had a door in it. When you opened that door you found another door, and that door opened yet another door. All the doors were nice and led out of her.

I saw thousands of pumpkins last night come floating in on the tide, bumping up against the rocks and rolling up on the beaches; it must be Halloween in the sea

In Watermelon Sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar.