Real tragedy is never resolved. It goes on hopelessly for ever.

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

A toad does not run in the daytime for nothing

A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.

Only the story can continue beyond the war and the warrior. The story outlives the sound of the war drum... The story is our escort. Without it we are blind... It is the thing that sets us apart from cattle.

I am not an early-morning person; I don't like to get out of bed, and so I don't begin writing at five A.M., though some people, I hear, do. I write once my day has started. And I can work late into the night, also.

Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality.