If you write a whole line of zeroes, it's still — nothing.
The writer who develops a beautiful style, but has nothing to say, represents a kind of arrested esthetic development; he is like a pianist who acquires a brilliant technique by playing finger-exercises, but never gives a concert.
The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
but their eyes were as cold blue glass buttons.
She did not know what it was about him that had always made her want to see him broken.
You know what you are actually in love with? Integrity. The impossible. The clean, consistent, reasonable, self-faithful, the all-of-one-style, like a work of art.