To be a world changer

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.

Man has not really vanquished Shamanism and its spooks till he possesses the strength to lay aside not only the belief in ghosts or in spirits, but also the belief in the spirit.

It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.

[Students] are exposed to many things the majority of their teachers didn't encounter until much later in their growing up years.

Don't believe everything you hear on the street.

My dream is to collaborate with a mature person.I feel like my talents were being wasted in art school. I would like to try something else, but not the obvious or usual thing.

In all change, well looked into, the germinal good out-veils the apparent ill.

Trust that you can get back up and not give in. Ever.

A picture's worth a thousand words? A library card's worth millions.

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.