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

It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.

The end is nothing; the road is all.

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

There was a new kind of strength in the gravity of her face, and her colors still gave her that look of deep-seated health and ardor.

I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate.

It has long been a tradition among novel writers that a book must end by everybody getting just what they wanted, or if the conventional happy ending was impossible, then it must be a tragedy in which one or both should die. In real life very few of us get what we want, our tragedies don't kill us, but we go on living them year after year, carrying them with us like a scar on an old wound.