'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.

I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualist…

Carol was discovering that the one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love. 'She supposed that she was being gracefully …

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