All stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. Especially do all stories of monogamy end in death, and your man who is monogamous while he often lives most happily, dies in the most lonely fashion.

I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.

The cat has complete emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is

Life breaks us all but in the end we are stronger in the broken places.

I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made.

There is no rule on how to write.