Even sound seemed to fail in this air, like the air was worn out with carrying sounds so long.

Caddy smelled like trees.

I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.

Just when do men that have different blood in them stop hating one another?

The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it's the perfect milieu for an artist to work in.

I took out my watch and listened to it clicking away, not knowing it couldn't even lie

Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.