The land belongs to the future.

The idea of you is a part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don't realize it. You really are a part of me. In the course of twenty crowded years one parts with many illusions... I did not wish to lose the early ones. Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen again.

"More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent.

Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody.

To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent.

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

Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness.