“You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others...”
“Evening of a hot day started the little wind to moving among the leaves. The shade climbed up the hills toward the top. On the sand banks the rabbits sat as quietly as little gray, sculptured stones.”
“You better start swimming, or you'll sink like a stone. Because the Time's they are a-changing.”
“You must start to live your life by the light of what you yourself want carved on your stone" (302).”
“You don't start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it's the people in the middle who do the actual work in the world.”
“If you start looking up, they start asking questions.”