My mother insured that a life of petty facts and dutiful farming was kept at bay by her passionate intensity, which nurtured the essential dreaminess of his nature

We gave the woman for her trouble a generous fee, with which she was highly pleased, and proceeded to put it in the bed under her sleeping husband's head. We laughingly told her not to put it there as he might get it, and it was money she had earned herself. She appreciated the joke, though it was told mostly by gestures, but seemed to have true ideas of the matrimonial relation, and was nothing loath to trust her all with him. page. 116

There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.

Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.

It really has quite an important effect on people.

We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists.