Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere.

Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.

Life began for me, when I ceased to admire and began to remember.

People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.

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

There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.

Let people go on talking as they like, and we will go on living as we think best.

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

It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.

Where there is great love there are always miracles.

People always think the bread of another country is better than their own.

The end is nothing; the road is all.

What if - what if Life itself were the sweetheart?

Success is never so interesting as struggle

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

Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection.

Miracles surround us at every turn if we but sharpen our perceptions of them.