Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.

The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.

That's the one trouble with this country: everything, weather, all, hangs on too long. Like our rivers, our land: opaque, slow, violent; shaping and creating the life of man in its implacable and brooding image.

And when I think about that, I think that if nothing but being married will help a man, he's durn nigh hopeless.

It's because I'm alone.. If I could just feel it, it would be different, because I would not be alone. But if I were not alone, everybody would know it. And he could do so much for me, and then I would not be alone. Then I could be all right alone.

Pouring out liquor is like burning books.

People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.