'It was ideal apple-eating weather; the whitest sunlight descended from the purest sky, and an easterly wind rustled, without ripping loose, the last of the leaves on the Chinese elms. Autumns reward western Kansas for the evils at the remaining seasons impose: winter's rough Colorado winds and hip-high, sheep slaughtering snows; the slushes and the strange land fogs of spring; and summer, when even crows seek the puny shade, and the tawny infinitude of wheatstalks bristle, blaze.'

'Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town.'

'People who are having a love-sex relationship are continuously lying to each other because the very nature of the relationship demands that they do, because y…

'Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really frie…

In warlike pomp, with banners flowing, The regiments of autumn stood: I saw their gold and scarlet glowing From every hillside, every wood.

One only leaf upon the top of a tree - the sole remaining leaf - danced round and round like a rag blown by the wind.

The gray-green stretch of sandy grass, Indefinitely desolate; A sea of lead, a sky of slate; Already autumn in the air, alas! One stark monotony of stone, The …