In nature two things do not occur-the wheel and good taste.

There's nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.

life passes by in a wink so try to never miss a moment of it

...to find where you are going, you must know where you are.

I'll want to hear,' Samuel said. 'I eat stories like grapes.

If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.

Within that frame he went a long way and burned a deep scar.

You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.

People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.

Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music.

The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads.

The break would never come as long as fear could turn to wrath.

There's more beauty in the truth even if it is dreadful beauty.

Maybe not having time to think is not having the wish to think.

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.

Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.

Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.

For the most part people are not curious except about themselves.

it was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials.

There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension.

We know what we got, and we don't care whether you know it or not.

Some men ease themselves like setting hens into the nest of death.

she knew she could help him best by being silent and by being near

I've always taken my hangovers as consequence, not as a punishment.

A stilted heron labored up into the air and pounded down the river.

I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief.

I can still tend the rabbits, George? I didn't mean no harm, George.

... you must not expect to find that people understand what they do.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

It must be a hard thing to kill a man you don't know and don't hate.

With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.

An ocean without unnamed monsters would be like sleep without dreams.

Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork.

... a man is a very important thing-maybe more important than a star.

Every man in a bank hates what the bank does and yet the bank does it.

An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.

We can shoot rockets into space but we can't cure anger or discontent.

We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome.

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world

Humanity has been passing through a gray and desolate time of confusion.

The object of love is the best and most beautiful. Try to live up to it.

There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers.

Life could not change the sun or water the desert, so it changed itself.

I think bullfights are for men who aren't very brave and wish they were.

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.

One must withdraw for a time from life in order to set down that picture.

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