It doesn't do to sacrifice for people unless they want you to.

They probably think the sun won't come up unless you're there to allow it.

I sing about life. I am happy, but life is sad.

It was something, what must go through men's mind where women were concerned, to cause them to behave so strangely.

You should marry me", he said. "I will be good to you. I am not like these men. I have manners. You would see how kind I would be. I would never leave you. You could have an easy life.

He liked to get off by himself, a mile or so from camp, and listen to the country, not the men.

It was something he had always done - moved apart, so he could be alone and think things or a little.

He ought to let the past keep its glow and not try to mix it with what he had in the present.

It's funny, leaving a place, ain't it?" he said. "You never do know when you'll get back.

It's just that it's fearsome for a man to have a woman start thinking right in front of him. It always leads to trouble.

The crimes the law can understand are not the worst crimes.

My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They’re made of me as surely as my brain and my heart are made of me. It is a civil war with a predetermined winner

People think, 'Oh, I'm loving myself by sitting on this sofa for four hours.' Love yourself enough to get up!

Sometimes you find your heroes in the unlikeliest places.

Art is a universal language and through it each nation makes its own unique contribution to the culture of mankind.

In the heat of her hands I thought, This is the campfire that mocks the sun.

People have preconceptions about women of a certain age.

Shall we go learn to kiss, to kiss? Never heart could ever miss Comfort, where true meaning is.

Human beings cannot endure the geological chaos they encounter under the soil of their own gardens.

Throughout high school, I was obsessed with magazines. I used to just comb through them and plaster things on my wall.

[Mark Twain] is still the rough, awkward, good-natured boy who swore at the deck hands when he was three years old. Thoroughly likeable as a good fellow, but impossible as a man of letters.