Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.

Late last night and the night before, tommyknockers, tommyknockers knocking on my door. I wanna go out, don't know if I can 'cuz I'm so afraid of the tommyknocker man.

How much courage does it take to fire up your tractor and plow under a crop you spent six or seven years growing? How much courage to go on and do that after you've spent all that time finding out how to prepare the soil and when to plant and how much to water and when to reap? How much to just say, "I have to quit these peas. Peas are no good for me, I better try corn or beans.

It was really amazing the number of hard hits from which a mind could recover.

It's best to be ruthless with the past.

The King is in his Tower, eating bread and honey. The Breakers in the basement, making all the money.

Absence may or may not make the heart grow fonder, but it certainly freshens the eye.