It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.

I feel like I don't have all the ingredients a person is supposed to have.

It is a rule of nature that taking a day off on the farm sets a person back at least a week.

We all need people to tell us that we were the ones who had been deeply wronged.

Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.

My god has always been a laissez-faire deity, giving you the initial goods and sending you on to make your way.

It's all a big old chain. There isn't one unconnected link.

Life on earth, filled with uncertainty and change, seemed far more difficult than what lay beyond the grave.

This was life, I supposed, running and running and running, and realizing along the way that the phantom was getting closer.

In the end maybe what marriage offered was the determination of one's burial site.

Accidents ambush the unsuspecting, often violently, just like love.

Love is my religion, kindness is my prayer, forgiveness is my temple, and peace is my abode.

Evil devastates any possibility of an intellectual response

Not accustomed to entertaining angels, are we?” he asked.

How idle it is to call certain things God-sends! as if there was anything else in the world.

Sometimes the greatest deterrent to a great marriage is believing you have a perfect marriage.

One of the tortures of jealousy is, that it can never turn away its eyes from the thing that pains it.

To be beat is to be at the bottom of your personality, looking up.

In anger nothing right nor judicious can be done.

We are never alone. We are all aspects of one great being. No matter how far apart we are, the air links us.