Wallace Stegner

“It's easier to die than to move ... at least for the Other Side you don't need trunks.”

“Hard writing makes easy reading.”

“It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by, and it's persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any.”

“wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.”

“Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.”

“Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.”