Can build plane... Delivery about three months.

When we put words together - adjective with noun, noun with verb, verb with object - we start to talk to each other.

Less is more, in prose as in architecture.

Of course newspaper sportswriting is mostly terrible - and of course it is usually the best writing in the paper.

Great literature, if we read it well, opens us up to the world and makes us more sensitive to it, as if we acquired eyes that could see through things and ears that could hear smaller sounds.

Opposites are attracted when each one is anxious about its own character.

Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing.