A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's tied in a mighty public way.

A good writer preserves an air of freedom in his prose, so that the reader won't know how a story will end - even if he's reading a history book.

People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.

Good-by, Good-by, world. Good-by, Grover's Corners... Mama and Papa. Good-by to clocks ticking... and Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new-ironed dresses and hot baths...and sleeping and waking up. Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.

When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.