The questioners had that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of it.

I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be

I love thee and thou art so lovely and so wonderful and so beautiful and it does such things to me to be with thee that I feel as though I wanted to die when I am loving thee.

He liked the works of his friends, which is beautiful as loyalty but can be disastrous as judgement.

A severed femoral artery empties itself faster than you can believe.

I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing," the old man said. "They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he was as poor as we are and would understand.

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.)