“What some people find in religion a writer may find in his craft...a kind of breaking through to glory.”

“We must find him...Some harm will fall upon our friend in his craziness. We must search through the whole world until we find him.”

“Such things have disappeared perhaps because men do not trust themselves anymore, and when that happens there is nothing left except perhaps to find some strong sure man, even though he may be wrong, and to dangle from his coat-tails.”

“You're getting well,' Samuel said. 'Some people think it's an insult to the glory of their sickness to get well. But the time poultice is no respecter of glories. Everyone gets well if he waits around.”

“Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won't all be poor.”

“And always, if he had a little money, a man could get drunk. The hard edges gone, and the warmth. Then there was no loneliness, for a man could people his brain with friends, and he could find his enemies and destroy them.”

“I think when a man finds good or bad in his children he is seeing only what he planted in them after they cleared the womb.”