"The wizard [of Oz] says look inside yourself and find self. God says look inside yourself and find [the Holy Spirit]. The first will get you to Kansas. The latter will get you to heaven.Take your pick..."
- Max Lucado
"You always had it in you to create miracles, but you forgot that it required you to do the opposite of what you are doing now."
- Shannon L. Alder
"Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas"
- Langston Hughes
"There was too much between them to think of any type of future. Yet, with him standing in front of her, she wanted to think of the future. Wanted him to wrap his arms round her. Kiss her. Tell her it ..."
- LaVerne St. George
"I was unhappy for a long time, and very lonesome, living with my grandmother. Then it was that books began to happen to me, and I began to believe in nothing but books and the wonderful world in books..."
"You can never really escape. It goes with you, wherever you go. Somehow, the prairie dust gets in your blood, and it flows through your veins until it becomes a part of you. The vast stretches of empt..."
- P.S. Baber
"The inside of the Trace Italian, of course, does not exist. A player can get close enough to see it: it shines in the new deserts of Kansas, gleaming in the sun or starkly rising from the winter cold...."
- John Darnielle
"Kansas afternoons in late summer are peculiar and wondrous things. Often they are pregnant, if not over-ripe, with a pensive and latent energy that is utterly incapable of ever finding an adequate rel..."
"This is what a place like this does to you. It makes you put words in the beaks of chickens."
- Danielle Paige