Lively, too. Talky as a jaybird. With something smart to say on every subject: better than the radio.

Shoot, boy, the country's just fulla folks what knows everything, and don't understand nothing, just fullofem.

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

But he does look stupid.' Yearning. Not stupid. He wants awfully to be on the inside staring out: anybody with their nose pressed against a glass is liable to look stupid.

All human life has its seasons and cycles, and no one's personal chaos can be permanent. Winter, after all, gives way to spring and summer, though sometimes when branches stay dark and the earth cracks with ice, one thinks they will never come, that spring, and that summer, but they do, and always.

Every day is a new day with me. All holds are off. All contracts are forgotten.

Oh, I adore to cook. It makes me feel so mindless in a worthwhile way.