It is the hour of pearl—the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself.
Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother.
I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
In every bit of honest writing in the world, there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearl...
A number of years ago I had some experience with being alone. For two succeeding years I was alone each winter for eight months at a stretch in the Sierra Nevada mountains on Lake Tahoe. I was the car...
Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased. I remember a man in Salinas who in his middle years traveled to Honolulu and back, and that journey continued for the rest of h...
Ma was heavy, but not fat; thick with child-bearing and work. She wore a loose Mother Hubbard of gray cloth in which there had once been colored flowers, but the color was washed out now, so that the...
Men all do about the same thing when they wake up.
I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of the listener as well as of the teller. A story has in it neither gai...
I guess there are never enough books.
It's a long slow process for a human to die. We kill a cow, and it is dead as soon as the meat is eaten, but a man's life dies as a commotion in a still pool dies, in little waves, spreading and growi...
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
We do know that we are cheated from birth to the overcharge on our coffins.
Some people think it’s an insult to the glory of their sickness to get well.
We have never understood why men mount the heads of animals and hang them up to look down on their conquerors. Possibly it feels good to these men to be superior to animals, but it does seem that if t...
Gli scrittori di oggi, e ci sono anch'io fra quelli, hanno la tendenza a mettere in risalto l'avvilimento dello spirito, e Dio solo sa quanto spesso la cosa avvenga. Ma quando, qualche volta, questo n...
Sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person-and write to that one.
How can I teach my boys the value and beauty of language and thus communication when the President himself reads westerns exclusively and cannot put together a simple English sentence? (John Steinbeck...
You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.
Eventlessness has no post to drape duration on.