A plan once made and visualized becomes a along with other realities - never to be destroyed but easily to be attacked." A plan is a real thing, and things projected are experienced. "But now, by saying what his future was going to be like, he had created it. News seems to move faster than small boys can scramble and dart to tell it, faster than women can call it over the fences." How news travels through a town is a mystery not easily to be solved. A town is a thing separate from all other towns alike. A town has a nervous system and a head and shoulders and feet. "A town is a thing like a colonial animal. "For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no matter what he may think about it." "She knew she could help him best by being silent and by being near." A plan once made and visualized becomes reality along with other realities - never to be destroyed but easily to be attacked."
"A plan is a real thing, and things projected are experienced. Kino sighed with satisfaction - and that was conversation." They had spoken once, but there is not need for speech if it is only a habit anyway. "When Kino had finished, Juana came back to the fire and ate her breakfast. And yet is was this thing that made him a man, half insane and half god, and Juana has need of a man she could not live without a man." Juana, in her woman's soul, knew that the mountain would stand while the man broke himself that the sea would surge while the man drowned in it. "It meant that Kino would drive his strength against a mountain and plunge his strength against the sea. For a boat does not have sons, and a boat cannot protect itself, and a wounded boat does not heal." The killing of a man was not so evil as the killing or a boat. You must want it just enough, and you must be very tactful with Gods or the gods." "It is not good to want a thing too much. "The people say that the two seemed to be removed from human experience that they had gone through pain and had come out on the other side." It meant that he was half insane and half god." "He said, 'I am a man,' and that meant certain things to Juana. "Luck, you see, brings bitter friends." And this is said in disparagement, whereas it is one of the greatest talents the species has and one that has made it superior to animals that are satisfied with what they have." "For it is said that humans are never satisfied, that you give them one thing and they want something more.