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

A child's attitude toward everything is an artist's attitude.

Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there — that, one might say, is created.

Alexandra sighed. "I have a feeling that if you go away, you will not come back. Something will happen to one of us, or to both. People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find. What I have is yours if you care enough about me to take it.

There seemed to be nothing to see; no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields. If there was a road, I could not make it out in the faint starlight. There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.

Money is a protection, a cloak; it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.

Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar.