And I said to myself that unless you conceive Death to be a violent guerrilla and kidnaper who snatches those you love, and if you are not cowardly and cannot submit to such terrorism as civilized people now do in every department of life, you must pursue and inquire and explore every possibility and seek everywhere and try everything.

It would not be practical for her to hate herself. Luckily, God sends a substitute, a husband.

Live or die but don't poison everything.

I seem to have the blind self-acceptance of the eccentric who can't conceive that his eccentricities are not clearly understood.

For God's sake,' the dog is saying, 'open the universe a little more!

The sand swallows burst out of their scupper holes in the bluffs and out over the transparent drown of the water, back again to the white, to the brown, to the black, from moving to stock-still sand waves and water-worked woods and roots that hugged and twisted in the sun.

The hour that burst the spirit's sleep.