Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it.

I don't suppose anybody ever deliberately listens to a watch or a clock. You don't have to. You can be oblivious to the sound for a long while, then in a second of ticking it can create in the mind unbroken the long diminishing parade of time you didn't hear.

You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to.

You men,' she says. 'You durn men.

The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.

My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.

Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar.