Merely having seen the season change in a country gave one the sense of having been there for a long time.

People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find.

Your vivid, exciting companionship in the office must not be your audience, you must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.

Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness.

The end is nothing; the road is all.

The only thing very noticeable about Nebraska was that it was still, all day long, Nebraska.

The land belongs to the future.