Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones.

One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away.

There was only - spring itself, the throb of it, the light restlessness, the vital essence of it everywhere; in the sky, in the swift clouds, in the pale sunshine, and in the warm high wind - rising suddenly, sinking suddenly, impulsive ... If I had been tossed down blindfold on that red prairie, I should have known that it was spring.

There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.

A watch is the most essential part of a lecture.

Henry Colbert, the miller, always breakfasted with his wife--beyond that he appeared irregularly at the family table.

There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon.