Thoughts are slow and deep and golden in the morning.
The break would never come as long as fear could turn to wrath.
The bank - the monster has to have profits all the time. It can't wait. It'll die. No, taxes go on. When the monster stops growing, it dies. It can't stay one size.
The Carmel is a lovely little river. It isn't very long but in its course it has everything a river should have. It rises in the mountains, and tumbles down a while, runs through shallows, is damned t...
Nobody knows. What good's an opinion if you don't know? My grandfather knew the number of whiskers in the Almighty's beard. I don't even know what happened yesterday, let alone tomorrow. He knew what...
No one who is young is ever going to be old.
Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans
Maybe we all have in us a secret pond where evil and ugly things germinate and grow strong. But this culture is fenced, and the swimming brood climbs up only to fall back. Might it not be that in the...
Man, he lives in the jerks-- baby born an' a man dies, an' that's a jerk-- gets a farm an' loses his farm, an' that's a jerk. Woman, it's all one flow, like a stream, little eddies, little waterfalls,...
Just come,
If you're in trouble or hurt or need–go to poor people. They're the only ones that'll help–the only ones.
I see too many men delay their exits with a sickly slow reluctance to leave the stage. It's bad theater as well as bad living
I live alone, he said simply. I live in the open. I hear the waves at night and see the black patterns of the pine boughs against the sky. With sound and silence and color and solitude, of course I se...
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
For how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion? You can remember only that you had them.
Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?
And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.
A question is a trap and an answer is your foot in it.
A little hope, even hopeless hope, never hurt anybody.
A dog...is a bond between strangers.