Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?

Work could cure almost anything

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

One cat just leads to another. The place is so damned big it doesn't really seem as though there were many cats until you see them all moving like a mass migration at feeding time.

He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it is probably only insomnia. Many must have it.

When I saw my wife again standing by the tracks as the train came in by the piled logs at the station, I wished I had died before I had ever loved anyone but her.