But if nobody can ever quite be nothing to you in Port William, then everybody finally has got to be something to you.

A good community insures itself by trust, by good faith and good will, by mutual help. A good community, in other words, is a good local economy.

Wheeler served them as their defender against the law itself, before which they were ciphers, and so felt themselves—and he could do this only as their friend.

And so there is the Territory of self-righteousness. It is easy to assume that we do not participate in what we are not in the presence of. But if we are members of a society, we participate, willy-nilly, in its evils.

The way we are, we are members of each other. All of us. Everything. The difference ain't in who is a member and who is not, but in who knows it and who don't. Burley Coulter

My old friend, Gene Logsdon, who's a fine writer on agriculture, and lately a novelist, once asked an Amish factory owner, "Do you have a toxic effluent from your factory?" And the owner looked at him in horror. He said, "Our children play around this factory." If you had a local slaughterhouse patronized by local people, who could watch the slaughtering and butchering of their own animals, you wouldn't need the government to inspect for sanitation.

Here I am I am tired I am tired of running of having to carry my life like it was a basket of eggs

Folks don't go to wars for fun. A man don't leave his maw crying just for fun.

Shreve had a brush, so I didn't have to open the bag any more.

Caminaron juntos, como dos universos distintos de experiencias y sentimientos, incapaces de comunicarse.

All of us are beggars here.

Love says, "I'm with you, let's deal with it.