I don't know for sure, he said, but I can't imagine that God, who is so adept at linking parents with children, would so cruelly separate them. Perhaps it isn't anywhere near the truth. Perhaps I'm me...
You’re always condemned to die. It’s just a matter of timing.
Remember, what we are trying to do in this life is to shatter time and bring back the dead. Rise, Virginia. Rise and see the whole world. Virginia
Quite possibly there's nothing as fine as a big freight train starting across country in early summer, Hardesty thought. That's when you learn that the tragedy of plants is that they have roots.
Fear, delight, and being twenty were made for each other:
When soldiers go home, their first desire, whether they know it or not, is to have children, children being the only antidote for war.
Truth is no rounder than a horse's eye.
They were dancing around the fountain, arm in arm, in an old Dutch dance, their cheeks touching, their hands entwined. They had no music; they hummed. And there was no reason for them to be dancing th...
Sometimes love is taken away unjustly, but not until the very end do you stop believing and then it is very bitter. It is bitter because somewhere within you the perfect standard still lives, the pure...
Small scenes can be so beautiful that they change a man forever.
Her eyes showed that though she may have decided to regret him, as long as he was in her presence she could not.
He moved like a dancer, which is not surprising; a horse is a beautiful animal, but it is perhaps most remarkable because it moves as if it always hears music.
HERE AT THE GOLDEN GATE IS THE ETERNAL RAINBOW THAT HE CONCEIVED AND SET TO FORM. A PROMISE INDEED THAT THE RACE OF MAN SHALL ENDURE INTO THE AGES. Like
Strength floods in after a fall.
Why do people resist [engines, bridges, and cities] so? They are symbols and products of the imagination, which is the force that ensures justice and historical momentum in an imperfect world, because...
That’s writing, huh. What does it do? It’s like talking, but it makes no sound.
Read what you find interesting, and then follow your interests. You'll find that in doing so you always generate enough to illuminate the next step.
Isn't it better to think nothing than to think something that is completely idiotic?
In living, one muddles through the years for the sake of those one or two moments which are indisputably great.
I wish that, like you, I could have spent my life transported aloft, as it were, every day, in music. Instead, I've lived like a caffeinated parrot.