No one you love is ever truly lost.

I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you're yet to be.

There is no rule on how to write.

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.

I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world--or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it down always, rather than spreading it out too thin. (On Writing.)

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

You should only read what is truly good or what is frankly bad.