The world was not wheeling anymore. It was just very clear and bright and inclined to blur at the edges.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.

She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly, dipping and hunting, with their small sad voices are made too delicately for the sea.

How did we go bankrupt? Two ways. Slowly, and then all of a sudden.

Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe.