I understand you all want to be writers. Well, what are you doing here? Why the devil aren't you home writing? - Sinclair Lewis

It came to him merely to run away was folly, because he could never run away from himself. ~ Ch. 25

"I wonder if you can understand the 'fun' of making a beautiful thing, the pride and satisfaction of it, and the holiness!" The company glanced doubtfully at one another. In Gopher Prairie it is not good form to be holy except at church, between ten-thirty and twelve on Sunday.

The outhouse was so overmodestly masked with vines and lattice that it was not concealed at all.