The only thing very noticeable about Nebraska was that it was still, all day long, Nebraska.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Success is never so interesting as struggle

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current.

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

The end is nothing; the road is all.

Laughter is the only thing that'll cut trouble down to a size where you can talk to it.

I don't think anybody really loves the sound of their own voice, but the tweakability is huge.

I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old.

You don't like hot rod racing or driving late at night, you just want to park where it's nice and dark.

You'd never killed anyone. Then you had.

I have referred to myself as an accidental activist on more than one occasion.

In the sea of grief, there were islands of grace, moments in time when one could remember what was left rather than all that had been lost.

So preach that those who do not fall out with their sins may fall out with thee.

Cloud is about how you do computing, not where you do computing