“I’ll be washed and ironed. I’ll be washed and ironed and starched.”

“There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped.”

“The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things.”

“I am a lover and have not found my thing to love. That is a big point if you know enough to realize what I mean. It makes my destruction inevitable, you see. There are few who understand that.”

“In youth there are always two forces fighting in people. The warm unthinking little animal struggles against the thing that reflects and remembers”

“Everyone knows of the talking artists. Throughout all of the known history of the world they have gathered in rooms and talked. They talk of art and are passionately,almost feverishly, in earnest about it. They think it matters much more than it does.”

“The fruition of the year had come and the night should have been fine with a moon in the sky and the crisp sharp promise of frost in the air, but it wasn't that way. It rained and little puddles of water shone under the street lamps on Main Street. In the woods in the darkness beyond the Fair Ground water dripped from the black trees.”