Setting ... is accident. Either a building is part of a place, or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger.

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

Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.

life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.

The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.

From two ears that had grown side by side, the grains of one shot up joyfully into the light, projecting themselves into the future, and the grains from the other lay still in the earth and rotted; and nobody knew why.

A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves.