I couldn't unpeach the peaches.

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.

People who take photographs during their whole vacation won't remember their vacation. They'll only remember what photographs they took.

Every spring he vowed to quit teaching school, and every summer he missed his pupils and searched for them on the streets.

It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave.

Novels written with film contracts in mind have a faint but unmistakable, and ruinous, odor.

The sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brain. This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since it means that only the simplest animals perceive the universe as it is.