A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well--or ill?

“You stay out here a little while, an' if you smell any roses, you come let me s…”

“There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers...”

“For how can one know colour in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without…”

“A stilted heron labored up into the air and pounded down the river.”