No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.

Prayers said by good people are always good prayers

To fulfil the dreams of one's youth; that is the best that can happen to a man. No worldly success can take the place of that.

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

The heart, when it is too much alive, aches for that brown earth, and ecstasy has no fear of death.

Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole - so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader's consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page.

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.