I know a little bit about a great many things and not enough about any one to make a living in these times.
He said, I am a man, and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god.
Hazel used his trick. They got no starfish there?They got no ocean there said Doc.Oh! said Hazel and he cast frantically about for a peg to hang a new question on. He hated to have a conversation die...
Gonna cuss an' swear an' here the poetry of folks talkin'.
For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no matter what he may think about it.
Dear Lord,' he said. 'let me be like Aron. Don’t make me mean. I don’t want to be. If you will let everybody like me, why, I’ll give you anything in the world, and if I haven’t got it, why, I’ll go fo...
Crooks stood up from his bunk and faced her. I had enough, he said coldly. You got no rights comin' in a colored man's room. You got no rights messing around in here at all. Now you jus' get out, an'...
Communications must destroy localness, by a slow, inevitable process.
But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest.
Blaisedell, the poet, had said to him, 'You love beer so much. I'll bet some day you'll go in and order a beer milk shake.' It was a simple piece of foolery but it had bothered Doc ever since. He wond...
Beans are a warm cloak against economic cold.
And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, Use it well, use it wisely.
And the girl,' Lanser continued, 'the girl, Lieutenant, you may rape her, or protect her, or marry her--that is of no importance so long as you shoot her when it is ordered.
And he saw the right evening star reflected in her eyes, and he saw the black cloud reflected in her eyes.
All great and precious things are lonely.
After a while you'll think no thought the others do not think. You'll know no word the others can't say. And you'll do things because the others do them. You'll feel the danger in any difference whate...
A stilted heron labored up into the air and pounded down the river.
A reputation for money is almost as negotiable as money itself.
A question is a trap and an answer is your foot in it.
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think youcontrol it.