Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether...
My town had grown and changed and my friend along with it. Now returning, as changed to my friend as my town was to me, I distorted his picture, muddied his memory. When I went away I had died, and so...
Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it.
Let's say that when I was a little baby, and all my bones soft and malleable, I was put in a small Episcopal cruciform box and so took my shape. Then, when I broke out of the box, the way a baby chick...
It set him free, said Lee. It gave him the right to be a man, separate from every other man.That’s lonely.All great and precious things are lonely.What is the word again?Timshel—thou mayest.
In the bathroom two water tumblers were sealed in cellophane sacks with the words: These glasses are sterilized for your protection. Across the toilet seat a strip of paper bore the message: This seat...
In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.
I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.
I think today if we forbade our illiterate children to touch the wonderful things of our literature, perhaps they might steal them and find secret joy.
I know this - a man got to do what he got to do, I can't tell you. I don't think they's luck or bad luck. On'y one thing in the worl' I'm sure of, an' that's I'm sure nobody got a right to mess with a...
He smiled at her as a man might smile at a memory.
He smiled at her as a man might smile at a memory. Then he went out and closed the door gently behind him. Kate sat staring at the door. Her eyes were desolate.
He said, I am a man, and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god.
Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess.
Go through the motions, Adam. What motions? Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.
Give me a used Bible and I will, I think, be able to tell you about a man by the places that are edged with the dirt of seeking fingers.
For it is said that humans are never satisfied, that you give them one thing and they want something more. And this is said in disparagement, whereas it is one of the greatest talents the species has...
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.
Doc would listen to any kind of nonsense and change it for you to a kind of wisdom.
Do you know that i paid two dollars for [Doxocology] thirty-three years ago? Everything was wrong with him, hoofs like flapjacks, a hock so thick and short and straight there seems no joint at all. he...