Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?

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.

The revival in religion will be a rhetorical problem - new persuasive words for defaced or degraded ones.

Everybody's talking about people breaking into houses but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses.

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for - whether it's a field, or a home, or a country.

Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.