It was a broiling afternoon of mid-August in Brinoe and everybody who was anybody had long ago quit its burning pavements and chilly palaces for the mountains or the sea.

Bread is the king of the table and all else is merely the court that surrounds the king. The countries are the soup, the meat, the vegetables, the salad, but bread is king.

As soils are depleted, human health, vitality and intelligence go with them.

Houses, like people, have personalities, and, like the personalities of people, they are partly molded by all that has happened to them.

...she had come long ago to understand that loneliness was the curse of those who were free, even of all those who rose a little above the level of ordinary humanity.

If what we already know were simply applied to all the agricultural land of the world and the problem of proper distribution were given consideration, the world could feed itself well.

Maybe all the people who say ghosts don't exist are just afraid to admit that they do.

Who hit you?""Clara.""Clara!""She whaled me one in return for upsetting you. Well, at least, that was the main reason.

Just because there were times you were frightened doesn't mean you weren't brave.

Things don't have to be sane when they're normal.

We have got a very short time to turn climate change around otherwise we will all die.

First and foremost, that's what I am, I'm a writer. I can't draw worth a darn. I don't draw, I write.

When we report stories, we don't just want to talk to people who did the right thing. We want to talk to people who did the wrong thing.

Abstract qualities begin With capitals alway: The True, the Good, the Beautiful- Those are the things that pay!

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.

It's better to die than to never really have lived.