There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

The house was built on the highest part of the narrow tongue of land between the harbor and the open sea. It had lasted through three hurricanes and it was built solid as a ship.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

Do not think about sin, he thought. There are enough problems now without sin. Also I have no understanding of it.

Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.

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