I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.

The echoes of beauty you've seen transpire, Resound through dying coals of a campfire.

No; that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it.

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

Most people are heartless about turtles because a turtle's heart will beat for hours after he has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too and my feet and hands are like theirs.

Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary.