I've got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I'm in it till the end of the race.

Randolph," he said, "were you ever as young as me?" And Randolph said: "I was never so old.

I'll wager at the end a body realizes the Lord has already shown Himself. That things as they are -- her hand circles in a gesture that gathers clouds and kites and grass and Queenie pawing earth over her bone - just what they've always seen, was seeing Him. As for me, I could leave the world with today in my eyes.

You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.

There's lots of things you don't know. All kinds of strange things . . . mostly they happened before we were born: that makes them seem to me so much more real.

Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.

The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.