I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.

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

The whiskey died away in time and was renewed and died again, but the street ran on. From that night the thousand streets ran as one street, with imperceptible corners and changes of scene.

One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

I am not one of those women who can stand things.

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.

People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.