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

A watch is the most essential part of a lecture.

Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.

Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.

I was thinking, as I watched her, how little it mattered –about her teeth for instance. I know so many women who have kept all the things she had lost, *but whose inner glow has faded*. Whatever else was gone, Antonia had not lost the fire of life.

One afternoon late in October of the year 1697, Euclide Auclair, the philosopher apothecary of Quebec, stood on the top of Cap Diamant gazing down the broad, empty river far beneath him.

Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere. Here you are an individual, you have a background of your own, you would be missed. But off there in the cities there are thousands of rolling stones like me. We are all alike; we have no ties, we know nobody, we own nothing.