Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.

Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.

Revenge was a very wild kind of justice.

The most striking fault in work by young or beginning novelists, submitted for criticism, is irrelevance--due either to infatuation or indecision. To direct such an author's attention to the imperative of relevance is certainly the most useful--and possibly the only--help that can be given.

... in nine out of ten cases the original wish to write is the wish to make oneself felt[ellipsis in source] the non-essential writer never gets past that wish.

Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you feel, this must not happen again.

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.