“No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble.... it was real muggy earlier, hot enough to cook a bear. Anyway, you get used a rapid weather change.”
“Do you think it will rain?Milo: But I thought you were the Weather Man?No, I'm the Whether man, for it is more important to know whether there will be weather, whether than what the weather will be.”
“Asparagus in a lean in a lean is to hot. This makes it art and it is wet weather wet weather wet”
“When the weather is hot, keep a cool mind. When the weather is cold, keep a warm heart.”
“For some people, she thought, trials were only temporary; they sailed towards happiness through the roughest weather.”
“And all the while, I suppose," he thought, "real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them ...”