I'm beginning to understand that when we want to kill ourselves, it is not because we are lonely, but because we are trying to break up with the world before the world breaks up with us.

“There was something about the prairie for me—it wasn’t where I had come from, b…”

“Do you write novels?" I said."Novels, Lord no," she said. "I can't even stay ma…”

“There are three principles to remember if you are to teach a human being anythi…”

“His name was Zeke, short for Ezekiel. She asked him if he was religious, he sai…”