Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life.

When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it.

Remote villages and rural communities have lost their identity, and their charm and peace have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.

All my roots are still in the prarie country of the Middle West.

Remote villages and communities have lost their identity, and their peace and charm have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.

God comes at last when we think he is farthest off.

People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.

It's an old sailor's idea that every ship has a rope with one end made fast to her bows and the other held by the loved ones at home.

Fermentation may have been a better invention than fire.

It was just inebriating what Midland was all about then.

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.

I never really worried about stats in the minor leagues. I was more concerned with getting better and bringing a positive attitude every day.

Come back, paragraphs. America needs you.

There was an ape in the days that were earlier, Centuries passed and his hair became curlier; Centuries more gave a thumb to his wrist — Then he was a Man and a Positivist.

You can't stop your heart from loving, really -- it's like standing out there in the ocean yelling at the waves to stop.