"Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; a…"

"Disco is the best floor show in town. It's very democratic, boys with boys, girls with girls, girls with boys, blacks…"

"It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year."

"It seemed odd to Joel that nature did not reflect so solemn an event: flowers of cotton-boll clouds within a sky as s…"

"A resident of over a hundred years in so narrow a world deserved higher homage."

"The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, rem…"

"Never trust a nigger: their minds and hair are full of kinks in equal measure."

"She beckoned to him, shining and silver, and he knew he must go: unafraid, not hesitating, he paused only at the gard…"

"But my dear, so few things are fulfilled: what are most lives but a series of incomplete episodes"

"“The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call “o…"