I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.

Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.

Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.